Day 2 Tasks

6/3/2017

Managing Transitions in the Classroom

Focus: on observing how the MST manages transitions during the school day.

Objective

List the type and function of all the transitions observed during the school day and
evaluate the efficacy of the strategies used by your MST to facilitate them. (Table 2)
Build upon and implement strategies for building positive relationships with children,
colleagues and families from the list provided as Table 3.

Procedure:

Table 2: Discuss the concept of managing transitions in the classroom. Observe and
record different transition strategies and record these in the table below.

Table 3: Over the course of this placement, add to this list of practical strategies for
building positive relationships with children, colleagues and families. Discuss which
are most effective.

Talking to each other

Talking about myself
Asking the kids what they like
Talk about their family

Whilst implementing the Task:

Create a table such as Table 3 below to:

List the type and function of the transitions that you observe during the school day.
Identify the strategies that are used by your MST to facilitate these transitions.
Comment on the success of these strategies in terms of both promoting positive
behavior and minimizing the incidence of challenging behavior.
Make practical suggestions about how these transitions could be modified in order to
further promote positive behavior and minimize the incidence of challenging behavior.

Questions to reflect upon:

1. Why do you think transitions are important?

2. How do they help children?
3. How do they help the teacher?
Table 4: Managing transitions in the classroom

Type Function Evaluate

Clapping They did it in the class. The children were

The teacher did it by interacting with the
clapping twice and then transition.
the student clap with the
teacher.

1 2 3 eyes on me They did in the class. The The children were aware
teacher says 1 2 3 eyes when the teacher was
on me and then the saying it.
student says 1 2 3 eyes on
you.

The teacher did it in the They respond to it quickly

class while they are
Timer packing up from one
activity to another.