Teaching Routines Versus Announcing Rules

Research has repeatedly shown that highly effective teachers spend most of the first two weeks of a semester teaching classroom routines. And yet, the older the students are, the less investment we make in teaching routines. Typically, by high school, teaching routines has become rather perfunctory -- often consisting of just a few announcements on the first day of school.

Teachers who do not make the investment in teaching their procedures and rules on the first day of school and over the first two weeks -- will spend a huge amount of time and energy bringing order out of chaos day after day for the rest of the school year.

Source: Education World