Phase 4 Management: Set Routines and Procedures

What should students be doing during group work?

• Listening to the teacher

• Taking a break

• Working individually

• Collaborating with their group

How many student roles do you need for successful group work?

• 2

• 4

• 1

• 3

What will be the hardest part to enforce during group work?

• Providing explicit instructions

• Keeping students quiet

• Ensuring every student has something to do

• Monitoring students' progress

What visual evidence can you create to make it easier to monitor students' on-task behavior?

• Having students write on the whiteboard

• Taking pictures of students

• Recording videos of students

• Observing students silently

What should the teacher do to ensure group accountability?

• Punish off-task groups

• Assign individual work instead

• Verbally enforce group accountability

• Ignore off-task groups

What can the teacher do to get off-task groups or individuals back on track?

• Provide individual correction or reset

• Ignore their behavior

• Give them a warning

• Assign extra homework

What should the teacher want to see on chart paper or student notebooks during group work?

• Empty notebooks

• Thoughts and ideas related to the task

• Random doodles

• Blank pages

What can the teacher do to ensure equal distribution of work in groups?

• Let students decide on their own roles

• Give more work to the high-achieving students

• Ignore unequal distribution of work

• Assign specific roles to each student

What can the teacher do to reset off-task groups or individuals?

• Provide a clear and effective reset or individual correction

• Ignore their behavior

• Praise their off-task behavior

• Give them a reward

What should the teacher do if some groups are off-task despite clear instructions?

• Reflect on when they started to get off track

• Ignore the off-task behavior

• Give up on group work

• Blame the students