A minute of class time might not seem like a lot, but over time the minutes up. Imagine students spend one minute moving from the rug to their desks. What if they have to move back? That’s two minutes. What if they do this twice a day for 180 days? That’s 720 minutes a year, or 12 hours of class time! Two whole school days spent moving from the rug to the desks and back.

Time is a teacher’s most precious commodity. You can mitigate time lost by establishing clear procedures. If you reduce a one-minute transition from the rug to the desks to 10 seconds with an efficient procedure, you save 10 hours of instructional time over the course of the year.

In this course you’ll identify time-wasting moments and write efficient procedures. You’ll learn how to teach your procedures so that students execute them quickly and with joy, and you’ll practice teaching a procedure to your colleagues.