Focused classrooms: Teacher checklist

This checklist focuses on adopting a focused classroom. 

Have I...

• established and explicitly taught positive rules for learning?
• developed routines that signal to students when learning is ready to begin and how learning will happen?
• organised my classroom to promote on-task behaviour so that learning routines can be embedded consistently?
• explicitly taught the verbal and non-verbal cues about the rules and routines for learning to my students so that they can regulate themselves?
• set learning goals for my students that are both ambitious and achievable? (Consult your formative assessment data and mastery learning objectives to help with this.)
• explored various options for participation that enable all students to participate in class activities (for example, different types of grouping)? 

Keywords: classroom management, engagement, disruption, disruptive behaviour