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Time on Task: Seconds Count

Lesson Objective: Mr. McCloud gives his perspective on how a few lost minutes matter a lot

All Grades / All Subjects / Student Focus

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Consider how much class time might be lost each week in your classroom How can you use these ideas to address the amount of lost class time with your students?
What routines might you need to adjust so that you capture every second of instruction?

5 Comments

Laura Bañuelos Apr 27, 2018 12:59am

I think this is a great thing to point out to the students. I wonder though, was there any notable difference in student work/attention in class after doing so?

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Jacque Yazza-Terrell Jul 25, 2013 12:48pm

Saving class time is very important and students need to be reminded that time off task adds up.

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Cheryl Best Jan 17, 2013 7:10pm

Like this question! I will ask it tomorrow moning during sacred writing time to see who can figure it out. I wonder if fifth graders can see the significance of all that wasted time...

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aitsai moussa Jul 1, 2012 9:08am

time is money!

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Tim Bedley Dec 19, 2011 3:23pm

Teachers tend to waste valuable instructional minutes also. Great stuff Mr. McCloud!

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Transcript: Time on Task: Seconds Count

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Time and Classroom Management

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CHRIS MCCLOUD: Let’s say in this 55 minutes you waste maybe five minutes doodling, and not thinking about what you’re

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CHRIS MCCLOUD: Let’s say in this 55 minutes you waste maybe five minutes doodling, and not thinking about what you’re supposed to be thinking about, you’re just kinda meandering in space. If you do that today and then you do that every day this week, that’s five days in a week, and that’s five minutes a day, so that’s 25 minutes in a week, and if you do that all month, you’re wasting, like, and there’s four weeks, so 25, so that’s 100 minutes. So you’re wasting roughly two whole class periods just by spacing out five minutes a day.

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