Routines in Classrooms

Routines are needed in every class especially with the younger students. Routines in the classrooms help the teacher more to manage the students and to make the students more calm inside the class. Also it is a main thing to help the students to learn in a better way. 

The presence of routines is essential. They may help the teacher to be faster in the lesson and explaining it rather than stopping from time to time to give the students instructions. 

Routines may help in behavioral management. For example, if there is nothing in the class to do around the students, so some students will make their own activities. In this case routines may help them to minimize their misbehavior. If there are routines in this case, the students will know what is expected from them and they would follow it.

Besides, routines could be funny. For example, have the students clean their desks every morning by singing a song. In this way the students may be interested in the routines rather than being bored from them. 
There are four main types of routines to manage the classroom: 

1. Housekeeping: It is about the routines that are usually done in the classes. For example, How to enter the classroom, taking attendance, erasing the board between two classes and to clean the classroom. They are happened unconsciously. 
2. Operational teaching: It is called also operational features. They are the routines that are somehow basics like where to sit, making announcements, and showing the homework, if you want your homework to be checked just put it on the right side of the table. 
3. Work habits and procedures: They are routines that are related to the work that is done in the class. For example in my class i put for the students a poster about the copy rules. They should write their names, title, date, leave space between the words, and write between the small lines. Also it is used to tell the students how to work in groups and the rules of working in groups.
4. Interpersonal: They are more about the relations in the class. If the students enter the classroom they should say "Good Morning", also it is about the politeness and saying please when you want something. 

The presence of routines in the classrooms are very important. The process of learning would be much faster and better when there are routines.