EPC 2903 Teaching Practice Booklet

Task 2: Managing Learning

CLO 3: Choose, justify and reflect on the selection of appropriate routines and explain practical
aspects of their implementation.

 Reflect on how routines can impact classroom environment (pacing, preventive CRM,
student engagement)
 Choose and justify the selection of appropriate routines (entering/leaving the class,
transitions, submitting work, resource distribution) in a range of contexts (ages, gender,
class size, school context, class dynamics, parental support)
 Explain practical aspects of implementation (clear instructions consistency)

TASK DESCRIPTION
The task is made up of two activities:
Activity 1: Observing Classroom Routines and Procedures
Activity 2: Planning for/Developing Routines and
Procedures

You are to complete BOTH Activity 1 AND Activity 2.

Activity One: Observing Classroom Routines and Procedures

Though there are many routines and procedures all over the school such as returning from assembly
or walking in the hallways, this task focuses on what happens inside of your classroom only.

During the first week of your teaching practice observe your MST and her/his classroom. Make a note
of five (5) routines that you see her/him use every day inside of the classroom. Fill in the table below
to describe EACH routine; when and where it is used; and what is the aim of the routine or the
student behavior that it hopes to achieve.
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Name/Description Give the When and where the Aim of the routine How did/do the students learn about this
of the routine. instructions routine is used? routine?
that the (what student How is the routine reinforced?
routine (e.g. at the end of the behavior it hopes to
uses school day etc.; or to achieve) (e.g. mentoring; classroom signs; reminders by the
guide presentations after teacher; use of peer interaction by the teacher to
group work) promote such behaviour etc.)
1 When it’s To learn how to be
Line up time to At beginning and the More organized The teacher remind them.
leave the end of the day
classroom.
2 Every day To get active and The teacher count from 1- 10 to stand up to
Morning exercise when the Before the teacher prepared mentally start doing the exercise.
teacher starts the lesson and physically for the
start the lesson.
lesson
3 When the To learn how to
Greeting students teacher Before the teacher do behave will and The teacher remind them when she inter the
inter the anything’s communicate with class.
class other people
4 When the To learn how to be The teacher rise the clean up card or
Clean up teacher At the end of the More organized sometimes she opened the song of clean up.
finish the lesson
lesson
5 When the To learn new words The teacher let them to set in front of her.
Reading story teacher At the end of the
finished the lesson
lesson
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Activity Two: Planning for/Developing Routines and Procedures

Plan the routines for one of your classes. The activity expects that you will teach the class. It
may be a class that you teach for an observation by your MST/MCT or just a practice class that
you teach with the permission of your MST. The lesson can be incorporated as one of your
formal observations if your MST/MCT decides. In order to complete the activity you are
required (whether the lesson is one of your formal observations or not) to fill in and submit the
planning sheet below.
Before you begin to complete the table talk a little bit about the class/lesson in which this plan
for routines is to be used. Include:

 Lesson objectives
 Main activities in the lesson
 Grouping of students during each main activity
 Behaviour expected during each activity (e.g. sharing resources; changing stations;
presenting)
 Where are the transitions in the lesson? What are they: (e.g. moving from plenary to
group work between main activity one and main activity two)

Class/Year Routine Routine Routine

Learning Objective of the To be To learn To be
routine/procedure organized how to active in
(what it hopes to achieve) behave class

Anecdotal Evidence - - -
(e.g. pictures of your class
during the routine; posters
of rules etc.)
Place in today’s class (when At Before Before
will you perform the routine) morning start the start the
lesson lesson
Importance to the smooth
functioning of today’s class
How well did this routine Line up Greeting Morning
work in today’s class students exercise
If you had to teach this class
over, how would you adjust
this routine and why
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After the Task - Reflection

Choose 3 best practices you observed during your time in school. Reflect on these and consider
why you could implement these in a UAE primary classroom in the future. Explain how these
practices will affect student learning in a primary class.

When I was in first academy school, I taught grade 4. In my first lesson that I observed in my
class, the teacher taught the students a wonderful routines that they uses every day. Here I will
talk about the 3 best routines that I observed during my time in school. Firstly, greeting
morning, the teacher use this routine every day at morning when she inter the class and before
starting the lesson. Secondly, the line up, I like when I saw the teacher uses this routine in her
class, because I think it’s make the students more organized when they leaving the class .
Thirdly, clean up routine, this routine its make the student to learn the cleanness. These
routines effective to the students and to let them to learn how to be on control in the future.
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