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Student success should be a teacher's number one priority. For some students, success will be getting a good grade. For others, it might mean increased involvement in class. You can help all of your students attain their full potential, regardless of the way they measure success. Following are eight strategies that you can employ to help students succeed.

Set High Expectations

Cultivate an academic environment in your classroom by setting high, but not impossible, expectations for your students. Push students to achieve higher standards and they will eventually get there-and along the way, offer lots of praise. Some may take more time than others, but all students want to be told, "You're smart and you're doing a good job." Give high school students college material to read and tell them, "This story/book/math concept is taught in first-year colleges around the country." Once the students tackle and master the material, tell them, "Good job students-I knew you could do it."

Establish a Classroom Routine

One of the key ways to help young children behave at home is to create an effective and consistent schedule for them to follow. Without this type of structure, young children often end up misbehaving. Secondary school students are no different. While classroom procedures often take a bit of time and effort to implement at the beginning of the school year, once established, they create a structure that will allow you to focus on teaching rather than handling disruptive issues.

Classroom management should also become a part of the daily routine. If rules have been made clear from day one, rules and consequences are posted throughout the classroom, and you consistently tackle any and all problems as they arise, students will fall in line and your classroom will run like a well-oiled machine.

Practice the 'Daily Fives'

Do the same opening activity during the first five minutes of class and the same closing activity the last five minutes so that students know, "OK, it's time to start class, or, "It's time to get ready to leave." It could be something as simple as having students get out their classroom materials and sit at their desks ready to begin at the start of class and putting away their materials, sitting down and waiting for the bell to ring at the end of class.

If you are consistent with your daily fives, it will become second nature to your students. Establishing routines like this will also help when you need to get a substitute. Students don't like to deviate from the established norms and will become advocates in your classroom to make sure things run smoothly.

Continually Grow in Your Profession

New ideas and research that can enhance your day-to-day teaching become available yearly. Keeping up with the latest information through online forums, workshops and professional journals can make you a better teacher. This will lead to increased student interest and greater success. In addition, teaching the same lessons each school year can become monotonous over time. This can result in uninspired teaching. Students will definitely pick up on this and become bored and distracted. Including new ideas and teaching methods can make a huge difference.

Help Students Climb Bloom's Taxonomy Pyramid

Bloom's taxonomy provides teachers with a great tool that they can use to measure the complexity of homework assignments and exams. Moving students up Bloom's taxonomy pyramid and requiring them to apply, analyze, evaluate and synthesize information will result in an increased use of critical thinking skills and a greater chance for authentic learning.

Bloom's Taxonomy can also help you move students from a basic understanding of concepts to asking more complex questions like: "What happens if?" Students need to learn how to go beyond the basic facts: who, what, where and when and question the world around them. They should be able to explain their answers as to why they feel a certain way about a concept, posit changes they would make and explain why. Climbing the Bloom's Taxonomy ladder can help students do just that.

Vary Your Instruction

When you vary teaching methods, you provide students with a greater opportunity to learn. Every student has different strengths and weaknesses. Instead of just focusing on one method that only appeals to a single learning style, varying your teaching techniques allows you to cater your lessons to different learning styles. Students will be more successful if they are not bored.

For example, instead of lecturing for an entire 90-minute class, do 30 minutes of lecture, 30 minutes of work-involving as much music, videos and kinesthetic movement as possible-and then 30 minutes of discussion. Students like it when you change things up and they're not doing the exact same thing every class period.

Show That You Care About Every Student

This might seem obvious, but every year, do a gut check concerning the students in your class. Are there any students you have written off? Are there students who are difficult to reach or who just don't seem to care? Students can sense your feelings about them, so be very careful with your own beliefs.

Regardless of your personal feelings, it is important that you work with each of your students to ensure their success. Be excited with them. Act like you want to be at work and you're happy to be there and see them. Find out what their hobbies are, take an interest in their personal lives and try to incorporate some of that into your lessons.

Be Transparent and Ready to Help

How to succeed in your class should be easy for all students to understand. Provide students with a syllabus at the beginning of the year that explains your grading policies. If you assign a complicated or subjective assignment such as an essay or a research paper, give students a copy of your rubric beforehand. If students participate in science labs, ensure that they understand exactly how you will be grading their participation and their work.

For example, if you just toss a C- on an essay but you haven't edited it or explained why the student got that grade, your student has no buy-in and will likely put little effort into the next assignment. Make students check their grades frequently, or provide them with printouts so they're constantly aware of where they stand in your class. If they've fallen behind, meet with them and create a plan to usher them toward success.

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Helping students grow and succeed is the goal of every teacher. This article looks at 8 things that you can do to foster student success.

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Effective transition classroom management.

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Effective transitions are critical for effective classroom management, successful learners, and happy teachers. Time loss, and attention loss, during transitions can be a major factor in student learning. It can be a major hurdle that separates high-growth classes from low-growth classes. Here are a few tips to give your students a sense of urgency and mental focus during transitions.

In this post, you will find:

Why effective transitions are important for classroom management and instructional effectiveness.

A Simple Transition Tip

Video on "Tight Transitions"

Ideas to Master Effective Transitions

Let's start with why effective transitions are so important.

Why Are Transitions Important?

These are times when noise levels increase, academic engagement is absent, and movement is present. It's the perfect recipe for disasters or regaining mental focus. It all depends on your use of routine and effective transitions.

Transition Time = No Learning, which is good for the brain.

Smooth transitions = Increased learning time.

Time = A teacher's most valuable resource.

Bad Transitions = Unfocused learners, loss of time.

Chaotic Transitions = Unhealthy class climate.

There's a lot at stake here. So let's look at the simplest tip that I can give you. It also has a huge impact on classroom management!

Transition Tip: Time Limits & Countdowns

Save time during transitions by using time limits and countdowns.

During any transition, give time limits. 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 60 seconds...whatever you think is appropriate for an effective transition, and then make it a bit shorter. The students will move much faster with a little time pressure.

Be sure to remind students of the intervals as they pass. It looks this:

"Okay students, clear off your desks and take out your writing notebooks. You have 30 seconds."

Students start the transition.

Teacher gives the interval, "20 seconds left."

Students hurry up and then, "10 seconds left."

In the final stretch, use a countdown, "5, 4, 3..."

It really is as simple as that! If you want to boost the effectiveness of this transition tip, try a few classroom management ninja techniques.

Add music. Experiment with calm, energetic, instrumental, and other types to see which is best for your class climate.

Add choral response. When giving directions, use a routine choral response such as:

Teacher: Hey, hey, young scholars!

Class: Hey, hey, cool teacher!

Then give the directions.

Add team points. Motivate teams by giving group points to the quickest and quietest groups.

Let's ninja-proof classroom management with these Effective Transition techniques! Click To Tweet

Tight Transitions

This is a strategy in the Teach Like A Champion book (Amazon link).

To do this, teachers must break down procedures and map out the one right way to do them. One effective way to do this is to scaffold the transitions, teaching procedures step-by-step. It may seem like a waste of time or something for their homeroom teachers to do, but it is an investment and one that can pay off for months or years to come, depending on how long you teach.

This is about the social and emotional health of the class. Teachers must break down procedures and map out the one right way to do them. Click To Tweet

Mastering Classroom Transitions

Let's wrap up with a few ideas and tips from Todd Finley. You can read more in the full article at Edutopia.

He offers an interesting fact about the loss of time during transitions:

Botched transitions are not only embarrassing, they're lost time. If you save 15 minutes a day through more efficient transitions, that will result in 45 extra hours of instructional time per year. Therefore, shifting students from one task to the next is worth getting right.

-Todd Finley

And here are a few tips for transitions:

Secure students' attention.

Explain the procedure.

Prepare kids for the signal to start.

Initiate the transition.

Observe.

Sometimes transitions are just plain difficult. Here are a few questions that can help with reflection:

1. Where my directions vague?

2. Did I have too many steps in the directions?

3. Was it a routine transition, or was it new?

4. How can I make this transition a habit, a routine?

5. Did I use a signal? The same signal as always?

6. Did I have their attention when we started the transition?

7. When did the transition get off-track? Who caused it? What caused it?

Botched transitions are not only embarrassing, they're lost time. If you save 15 min/day through more efficient transitions, that will result in 45 extra hours of instructional time per year! @finleyt Click To Tweet

Effective Classroom Structures with Transitions

I hope this quick-read helps with building effective transitions into your class structure. Also, you can use the timers and tools to help with effective transitions: Class Dojo (for points, music, and timers), Online Stopwatch (fun timers for projection), Egg Timer (a simple timer for transitions).

If you enjoyed these effective transition tips, please consider sharing this article with a friend or colleague using the share buttons. And now, it's your turn. What tips do you have for transitions and classroom management? What questions do you have? Leave a comment below the related articles or Tweet Matt here.

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