When you work 1:1 or 1:2 or 3 with students all day, classroom management looks very different than when you are in a classroom with 20 or more students. I rarely have to deal with circumstances being too loud, or any real behavior issues, because I am working side by side with each student in close proximity and engagement. What I tend to use most to manage transitions between student tutorials and groups is a visual executive function strategy called Get Ready, Do, Done, (demonstrated above in Youtube video) which outlines our tasks/goals for the lesson and circles back to see if we have met our goals. Within this strategy I use a visual time timer, so that students can see how much time we have remaining to complete their tasks or objectives.
I also use various apps that I have discovered in class, so that I can break up groupings. If I want to work 1:1, for example with a student, listening to him read, taking a running record, or checking in on comprehension, yet have a group of 2 or 3 students in my room, I often have the other students log on to Google Classroom, access Quizlet to work on vocabulary, or go onto Vocabulary Spelling City to access their account and work on spelling or vocabulary assignments. When behavior expectations have been met for several days in a row, I will create a Kahoot (game show format-dashboard pictured below) and we will challenge each other in teams, to answer questions about our current reading book, or even Wilson reading skills. The students can share the results with me and they can be uploaded to my drive for me to look at and assess later.
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| Kahoot Results can be uploaded into my drive |
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