As a new school year approaches, teachers continue to reflect on past practices and how to shake things up a bit to find even more success in classroom routines. After all, there are so many routines to teach that teachers have even begun to make checklists for the beginning of the school year. Lining up to leave the classroom for specials, lunch, recess, or dismissal is one routine that seems to need re-teaching more than others throughout the school year. Students tend to fool around in line, but with the right expectations set early on, lining up can be much less of a headache.
Use one or more of these fun, proactive strategies to get your students in a lining up routine that everyone can get behind.
1. Secret walker
Secretly choose a student for the day to be the “secret walker.” If this student follows all lining up and hallway expectations, reveal who the secret walker was…
