How to Teach Instructional Routines
So You Can Focus on the Learning
Many teachers display routines. Very few explicitly teach them.
The most effective classrooms treat routines like any other skill — explicitly taught, practised, and refined over time.
Because here’s what’s actually draining you: it’s not the teaching. It’s the constant reminders. The repetition. Bringing students back to looking at the front, listening to the speaker, having nothing in their hands. Over and over. All day.
That’s what leaves you overstimulated by 3pm. That’s what makes you walk through your front door and withdraw from your family, your friends, your own life — because you’ve got nothing left.
This training changes that.
When you explicitly teach students what success looks like within each part of the lesson, you manage less. You repeat yourself less. And you leave school with energy still in the tank.
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🎧Listen to the practical audio training below that walks through:
How to introduce instructional routines at the beginning of the year or term
Which routines to prioritise first
How to explicitly teach classroom participation expectations
How to use the posters throughout your lessons
Common mistakes that reduce effectiveness
Strategies for building routines that become automatic over time