As we have been studying, it´s important to know how to get our students´attention when teaching, but that process involves several "items" we have to take into account. It´s necessary to understand that each item contains other subcategories that are connected one to another.
The categories, or items, are:
- Attention
Attention is related to how teachers can obtain and mantain students´attention. It´s based on several movements as desisting, alerting, enlisting, acknowledging and winning. - Momentum
Momentum deals with the environment a class should has. It relies on provisioning, overlapping, fillers, intrusions, lesson flexibility, notice, subdivinding and anticipating. - Space
This subcategory not only deals with how the classroom is arranged but also with the students´ attention got with the different arrangements. - Time
This is one of the hardest things we can face when teaching. We have to let our students know taht there is tiem for everything and that once in the classroom that time is to learn. Time relies on alocation, instructional time,begining and ending time, and pacing and rhythm. - Routines
Routines are actions or situations we apply every single day in order to find things, to look for something, etc. But talking about teaching routines, we have to know that they must be clear and effecient.Communication plays an important role here because it has to be direct, specific, repeated and consistent. - Discipline
What can we say about this category? It depends on the categories we have already mentioned.
If we pay special attention to those items, we´re going to notice that they cannot be separated because each of them is important in the teaching process.
