Instructional Routines at the End of the Term
How to use your structure to carry your students to the holidays
It's the last few weeks of term and your students are checked out.
Energy is low, behaviour is escalating, and it feels like the structure you built all term is unravelling. So you loosen the reins. You simplify. You let things slide because it feels easier than fighting it.
But here's what I've learned from delivering over 500 explicit lessons: the end of term is not when you drop your routines. It's when you lean into them harder than ever.
Your instructional routines are not just a teaching tool. They are your most powerful behaviour management strategy, especially when students are dysregulated, overstimulated, and counting down the days.
Predictability calms. Structure settles. And when students know exactly what's coming next, they regulate faster and push back less.
In today's voice training inside the Structured Teaching Portal, I'm walking you through exactly how to use your existing instructional routines as your end-of-term behaviour strategy, what to hold tight on, what you can simplify, and why the teachers who keep their structure to the last day are the ones who start Term 3 without rebuilding from scratch.