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Knowing how to organize a notebook and doing it are two very different things, as any teacher can tell you. I can’t begin count how many absolutely wonderful handouts I’ve given my students telling them how to organize their notebooks. They know how to do it. I’ve got their quiz results to prove it. So what are all those crumpled pages doing at the bottom of their backpacks- or worse yet on the floor under their desks? What is a frustrated teacher to do?
Well, I certainly don’t need to give them another handout telling them how to organize their notebooks, and I’m not going to organize their notebooks for them. What I need to do is help them develop the habit of being organized, or more specifically of organizing as they go along. Thanks to a posting in Senia’s blog, I think I’ve found an almost painless way to help them develop this habit. The two minute rule.
The two minute rule. I like the sound of it- although some of my kids might not like the rule part of it. I think my students will buy into it. At least that’s my impression. When they ask me if they can leave my class before the bell rings at the end class and I tell them to wait for the bell, they tell me ” Come on Miss, it’s only two minutes”. It’s only two minutes. I like that. So starting September 5, I’ll be telling them “Come on, it’s only two minutes”. Don’t ya just love it!
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[...] Sometimes you have to be reminded of the things that you believe. I was reading Elona’s teachers-at-risk blog about advice for students on organizing. Elona suggests having students do something for two minutes. Just two minutes. And I thought, “Man, sometimes I forget to do things in those two minutes in which they could most easily be done in!” [...]