Managing Transitions in the Classroom

Focus: on observing how the MST manages transitions during the school day.

Objective

• List the type and function of all the transitions observed during the school day and
evaluate the efficacy of the strategies used by your MST to facilitate them. (Table 2)
• Build upon and implement strategies for building positive relationships with children,
colleagues and families from the list provided as Table 3.

Procedure:

Table 2: Discuss the concept of managing transitions in the classroom. Observe and record
different transition strategies and record these in the table you will create.

Type Function Evaluate

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Whilst implementing the Task:

• Create a table such as Table 3 below to:

• List the type and function of the transitions that you observe during the school day.
• Identify the strategies that are used by your MST to facilitate these transitions.
• Comment on the success of these strategies in terms of both promoting positive
behaviour and minimizing the incidence of challenging behaviour.
• Make practical suggestions about how these transitions could be modified in order to
further promote positive behaviour and minimize the incidence of challenging behaviour

Questions to reflect upon:

1. Why do you think transitions are important?

2. How do they help children?
3. How do they help the teacher?