Rituals in School

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so, in this blog, I would like to share information and tips about rituals in school.



“Brush your teeth, go to the toilets, storytime, and then you go straight to bed”.

We’ve got used to hearing them since we were kids, which is why rituals are extremely important for students. In fact, they start getting familiar with them at a very young age. They get to have responsibilities, tasks and it also gives them the opportunity to work their memory since these habits get “stuck in their minds.” Rituals at home are as important as those in the classroom. The students feel at ease and know they are in good hands!

They are considered as important and practical: Students learn how to concentrate and this definitely helps teachers to do their job perfectly! As the years go by, rituals keep taking a crucial place in my schedule. The great thing about this is that I can include them in all types of subjects and for all levels.

Here are some types of rituals:

  • Institutionalized rituals
  • Useful rituals in all aspects of learning

3 daily rituals for your students


Institutionalized rituals take place every time a student comes back from a break (it could be a lunch break as well).  Students are usually excited when they walk into the classroom after playing, eating…

This is why these rituals help them to calm down and concentrate again: The kids know what they have to do and start working.

It’s a good way to establish an effective work environment, and here are some examples for my fellow teachers…

Let’s assign responsibilities

As my students are divided into groups, each one of them is named “responsible” for the day, which means that we’ve got 4 responsible per day.

This means that all of them get to have several tasks by the end of the week, and they are all pretty happy and proud of it! Whenever a student has that “status”, it means that they have to take care of everything in the classroom: lights, blackboard, table, collection of paperwork…

 Let’s have a writing jog

Yes, you read it right: the writing jog!

My young students take their copybooks and write down the instruction of the day. When everything is clear, I let them work alone and I go to see each one of them. This allows me to make personalized comments:

Remember, we always start a sentence with a capital letter…For example, you’ve written “lots of foxes”, there is the expression lots of, so you have to add an s at the end of your sentence…

These comments help them improve their spelling skills and push them to think before writing any word. They take their time and ask themselves the right questions. When they finish their work, some students take the initiative and read their productions out loud. I will soon be creating a wall of words. I believe it’s a good idea because it will allow my students to learn new words and expressions, and they’ll be able to link that to their reading activities.

Let’s practice math in less than 10 minutes!

The concept is simple:

We roll a dice and add the number found to the one we got the day before. We take that number and write in every possible form: letters, drawing (it could take a form of a bill), we can also look for the number that comes before and the one after, draw that number as well…

The possibilities are infinite!

Each student works on the number individually on special sheets.

As for the response of the day, he takes care of the “class report”. I make sure to spend as much time as I can with every student at least once a week: This allows me to give them very specific advice.

Finally, there are other rituals that are more periodic. I usually involve them in my lessons: vocabulary games, “the sentence of the day”, the mystery number… These are short exercises that help the student remember a concept.

Rituals to master all the subjects

The useful rituals are those involved in the introduction of a subject: It could be, for instance, short exercises in the English language course or involve a ritual in a math lesson. It’s a good way for children to review the notions they’ve seen earlier in the year. It’s fair to say that the students won’t be able to remember these concepts the following year if we omit those rituals.



reference :

https://beneylu.com/pssst/en/rituals-change-class/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicef.org%2Fpress-releases%2Fonly-quality-education-and-end-violence-can-offer-hope-and-better-opportunities&psig=AOvVaw0jE58rjMGxICeikHKM6gs0&ust=1610190276356000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNCVq62ZjO4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAK

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