Managerial Routines

1) Equipment:  Pick up racquets in order of: -  Last Names
                                                                                      -  Order of placing on a jog/run
                                                                                      -  Placement on tournament ladder
                                                                                      -  Date of birth

                        Retrieval of Equipment:  -  Students without strip
                                                                               -  Those who are late
                                                                               -  Behavioral problems

2) Procedures:  -  Daily mark out of five
                           -  Automatic two out five for no strip
                           -  One mark lost for being late
                           -  Teacher announces when class is over

3) Groupings: -  Lines of four to five students to take attendance  (Home base format)
                            -  Rotating student captains to account for attendance and strip
                            -  Pairing of partners #1 and #2
                            -  Changing of partners as much as possible (promotes a wider variety of learning experiences)
                            -  Use pinnies to make teams, sort out height and skill, and to divide the class

4) Classroom rules:  -  Respect teacher, classmates, equipment and the learning environment
                                        -  Ask permission to use the washroom
 

5)  Disipline:  - Put an emphasis on the student letting down his classmates by misbehaving.  Try
                              not to turn it into a student teacher conflict.
 

Derek and Kim's managerial tasks motto:

"The primary goal is to develop a system that enables students to do a great deal of self-
management, that makes them want to be responsible members of the class" (Siedentop 2000).
 

                                    
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