Principle nine: " Setting up Routines "

By Licda. Sylvia Johnson

According to the reading on this principle, when teachers have a large class or group of students; she/he encounters along with her/his self a variety of different personalities and human energy which takes on a particular role play on a daily basis; from this point, stability of some well set routines must be established.

Activities and events will be easier to handle if these are managed at the very beginning of the school year term.Here are some tips in regards to classroom procedures that can easily become routines:

*The way attendance is checked and tardiness is dealt with.
*The way students sign up for special projects.
*The way students are notified of tests dates, deadlines and special events.
*The way students check their own reading progress.
*The way students move from a group or pair work strategy to a teacher-fronted framework or vice versa.

During the time in which these routines are being established and the act of following them is very helpful, not forgetting that the same are not a life- time pattern without going out of line.

These are made with the purpose of making one's job a bit smoother not for us to become the slave of it, on the other hand their is the possibility of a constant evaluation to maintain and to prune what is alredy there or to undo and create new ones to fit the profile. There is also a chance to start a new set in the midlle of the school year term, because life is a changing system in which we should try to fit situations in the moment for the proper goals required.

A classroom's atmosphere of confidence, trust and enjoyment where teachers make sure that it remains that way, not only will students appreciate him/her but will also be willing to move on to new ideas and changes around the settings thereof  for the well being of the classroom climate all year long.