Podcasts Education Courses Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers EP178 How to act (rather than react) and stop wasting class time when kids are off-task

EP178 How to act (rather than react) and stop wasting class time when kids are off-task

Published: Oct. 13, 2019, 4 p.m.

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Are you constantly losing instructional time to minor disruptions and off-task behavior? What if you shifted your focus from eliminating misbehavior and interruptions to maximizing learning time?

When the goal is to eliminate interruptions, you feel like you have to address every single one so it never happens again. When the goal is to maximize learning time, you can choose a more constructive response that keeps the majority of the class on-task.

This approach will reduce the wasted class time spent on lectures about the rules and arguing with kids over what you\\u2019ve told them to do. Here\\u2019s how to plan your responses in advance so you\\u2019re not constantly exploding in frustration over minor things.\\xa0

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