Provides students with predictability decreasing anxiety, frustration, and worry
Provides a regular schedule and point by point map to follow
Helps with oppositional and defiant students
Increases work production, compliance, and engagement
Improves academic performance
Improves focus and attention
Teacher students how to manage time and resources
Improves organization
When should I do it:
When a student gets off task easily, is easily frustrated, or is anxious about the school day
When a student is oppositional and defiant
When a student is disorganized, scattered, etc
With struggling students
With students that never know what is next, what time and subject it is, etc
When a student has poor attention and focus
When students have low motivation, poor effort, and low participation
When students present with behavioral challenges
How do I do it:
You can write your schedule on the board daily, crossing off events as they occur
You can provide the student with an individual schedule on their desk daily, having them cross off events as they occur
The schedule can include pictures as well as words
You can also add a timer for each topic, providing student with a time frame for each subject
A class schedule can be posted with words and pictures
A routine wheel can be utilized whereby the days routine is represented on pie sections of the wheel, and a spinning arm in the center is turned to point to the current event or task in the routine
Engage students in keeping track of where they and the class are in the daily routine
Ask students what is next in the routine and remind them when a period is ending soon
Colors, shapes, and other similar things can be used to symbolize the various parts of the routine, for example, yellow card is reading period, red card is history period, etc
