Welcome to Season 5 episode 4 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers.

I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today I'm going to share 12 structures, routines and expectations that will set kids up for success and keep them focused when they're using

the internet in class.

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For each strategy you'll find step-by-step instructions, editable templates, and even video footage

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visit the Teacher Toolkit.com. Today I want to talk about one of the most common problems that

teachers face when integrating technology into their lessons, which is

keeping kids focused. It can be really hard to get kids to listen to directions once they're on their devices and also difficult to make sure that they're focused on the assignment when there's so many other things that they can be doing online.

So let's look at some ways to be proactive and

set kids up for success. We want to make it as simple as possible for them to be

more productive and focused with their time online.

So first off, decide on your policies ahead of time with students and have them and their

parents sign a contract.

So before students use any computers or mobile devices in class,

there needs to be a shared understanding

about the rules and their responsibilities.

Work with students to develop technology success criteria. responsibilities. policy to students, have them sign it and move on. This is something we can develop with kids.

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