What Teachers Can Do About ALT

1. Schedule ample class time for important activities.
   
   
2. Manage the classroom efficiently - avoid confusion and "dead time." (Chapter 13)
   
   
3. Minimize distractions. (Chapter 13)
   
   
4. Monitor and promote on-task behavior. (Chapter 13)
   
   
5. Avoid having students "wait around" with nothing to do. (Chapter 13)
   
   
6. Find out when students are not working at a high rate of success, and get them help. (Chapter 14)
   
   
7. Extend ALT with appropriate homework. (Make sure the homework serves a useful purpose and can be completed at a high rate of success.) (Chapter 15)
   
   
8. Make sure that classroom time is really devoted to appropriate activities.
   
   
9. Make sure that classroom time is devoted to all relevant outcomes.
   
   
10. Double up. For example, review one topic while beginning another. (Chapter 3).
    
    
11. Remember that it's possible to devote ALT to more than one topic simultaneously. For example, students can use language arts skills to express their ideas about social studies. The principles of ALT apply to both topics.
    
    
12. When you focus on more than one topic, avoid the mistake of accidentally doing justice to none of them.
    
    
13. Make students want to stay productively on task. (Chapter 5)