How do children benefit from having a daily routine?
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Why are routines important in Behaviour management?
Sebastian Rath
2025-08-02 16:31:22
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Routines vary from school to school, but nudging them into becoming automatic habits for staff and pupils takes more than just explicit instruction from one teacher. For pupils to grasp routines, we need to reveal these hidden steps, so they become overt and visible. For example, a ‘do now’ retrieval activity may require sitting down according to a seating plan, finding equipment, setting out the work in a book or on a whiteboard, writing a title and date, accessing appropriate supports, working with a partner or in silence. What is clear is that seemingly effortless routines are hard won, and not as simple as they might appear. Maximising this learning time by teaching learning behaviours is more crucial now than it has ever been. Cultivating a calm culture of learning in our classrooms, with a smooth start, means we can reduce overloading pupils’ working memory, gain learning time and demonstrate our high expectations. Recommendation 4 of the EEF’s Improving Behaviour in Schools guidance report states that some promising strategies do not require complex pedagogical changes. Whether we are taking pupils to magnificent museums or beginning lessons in our familiar classroom settings, being explicit about a routine reset is likely to benefit our pupils and prove a boon for behaviour.
Annie Reichert
2025-07-22 16:18:44
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I’ve often felt that it is helpful to link behaviour management techniques to learning routines so that the behaviour routines have an explicit purpose and, at the same time, the learning routines have a structure and some rigour to them. If you can get everyone listening whenever you want and involve everyone in productive purposeful talk whenever you want, you’ve got some basic foundations for great lessons pretty much nailed. The signal needs to be taught and rehearsed explicitly. The pause is key. You need to give take-up time; it’s a simple fact of human communication; you can’t just switch-off an intense discussion like a robot. Also the pause is time to scan and regain eye contact. Insist is ideally non-verbal: You just wait, making eye contact. You mean everyone and you will not proceed until everyone is listening. If you have a good rhythm, moving from everyone talking to everyone listening – via Signal, Pause, Insist – at intervals, you have a nice blend of controlled questions and productive student talk, linked to your expositions and explanations. This flexes your behaviour management skills – the calm routine use of Signal, Pause, Insist – and gets maximum value from your questioning, with paired talk and cold calling working in tandem.
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Kade Bogan
2025-07-15 13:32:25
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Routines help children cooperate. This is because family routines make it clear who should do what, when, in what order and how often. A routine can also help you plan for times when children are likely to behave in challenging ways, like school mornings when there are time pressures on your child and you. Routines are good for children and families in many ways. They help family life run smoothly. They help children feel safe, develop skills and build healthy habits. When children have had enough good-quality sleep, nutritious food and plenty of play, they’re more likely to behave in positive ways. Routines help children know what to expect. They also help them understand what you expect from them.