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Excerpt from Chapter 3:

"Focusing student attention on learning experiences is perhaps the most fundamental management challenge a teacher faces daily, hourly and moment to moment in any classroom. In many ways, Attention is the bellwether area of performance among the management group. Unless students are paying attention to the instruction, it does not matter how good the lesson may be. This area of performance is about the repertoire of moves available to gain students’ attention, to keep it, and to regain it if it wanders."

Saphier, J., Haley-Speca, M.A., & Gower, R. 2008.

The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills,

6th ed. Acton, MA: Research for Better Teaching, Inc.

	Space	Attention
	Time	Momentum
	Routines	Discipline