Ask any veteran teacher, “What’s the best way to create a positive and productive environment in your classroom?” and you’ll hear the same answer over and over. Our young students thrive in a safe and consistent environment, so setting up a daily school routine is crucial. Dig into our tips and tricks to help ease the stress of this huge task!
Daily School Routines for Teachers
Students aren't the only ones that need routines and procedures. Having routines in place for yourself truly makes your teaching life easier. Peruse the links below for school routine ideas.
Consider having routines for things like:
- New student intake
- Substitute teachers
- Collecting and distributing work
- Submitting attendance and lunch counts
- Student documentation
- Update daily schedule
The goal is to decrease your stress level and make difficult jobs as easy as possible. Check out more ideas for establishing healthy habits as teachers.
Daily School Routines for Students
Sometimes routines can be difficult to create because things that seem obvious to us, as adults, are not so obvious to our students. We really need to put ourselves in our student's shoes to get a good idea of the kind of routines that are needed. Walk through a day in your class and write down questions students may have. For example:
Create and practice routines for everything, no matter how small it may seem. The benefits, to both you and your students, of establishing these routines are worth the effort.
Bonus Tips
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Thank you so much for all the tips and ideas! I was wondering, what do you do for Literacy Rotations?
Hi! We would love to help you with this question, please email us at customerservice@luckylittlelearners.com and we will do our best to answer it for you! Thanks so much!
Bailey J.
Lucky Little Learners
Great video, especially for my new teacher I am mentoring.
Do you have the schedule chart available?
Hi Annette! We would love to help you with this question, please email us at customerservice@luckylittlelearners.com and we will do our best to answer it for you! Thanks so much!
Bailey J.
Lucky Little Learners
Hi….I am planning to buy digital bundles nearly 3-4…I just need to check if it works properly on my iPad….I hope it works on laptops as well. Can you send me sample file? I must say all your resources are very well planned. And are the toothy recording sheets are included in the digital version as well?So that kids can record their answers while solving digital version.
Hi Ash! We would love to help you with this question, please email us at customerservice@luckylittlelearners.com and we will do our best to answer it for you! Thanks so much!
Bailey J.
Lucky Little Learners
I saw that you have kids self-correct the SPIRAL curriculum… I am accustomed to whole-group checking spiral activities. I would love to know how you have kids self-correct.
Hello Lauren! Teachers use the answer keys that are included and have them compare their work to that. You could project just that day’s problems on the board and have kids self check. Like anything else, it would be a routine to teach. I hope that helps!