Five Core Components | Center for Teacher Effectiveness (2024)

Time To Teach trainings consist of Five Core Components:

1. Self-Control Strategies
2. Classroom Design Techniques
3. Teaching to Appropriate Behaviors
4. Accurate and Timely Consequences
5. Student Teacher Relationships

Self-Control Strategies:

• Learning calm is contagious and silence is powerful strategies
• Dealing with challenges on student time
• Personal space awareness
• Avoiding power struggles
• Diffusing challenges

Classroom Design Techniques

• Desk arrangements
• Ecological revisions
• Use of
  • color
  • scent
  • lighting
  • music

Teaching to Appropriate Behaviors

• Teaching to classroom rules
• Teaching to classroom routines
• Teaching to common or shared area expectations
• Teaching behaviors using the I do-we do-you do method

Accurate and Timely Consequences

• Refocus™~ eliminating 90% of classroom challenges
• Avoiding multiple warnings and repeated requests
• Using start-up and shut-down prompts

Student Teacher Relationships

• Connecting with kids
• Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR)
• Turning challenging students into allies