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You'll get better at it!
By tammynj

This is my 4th full year teaching, and I am pretty good at pacing my lessons now. That said, there are still times when my lessons seem to end short, or go on too long. Sometimes this is b/c of my planning, but other times,
it is because the kids either "got it" much more quickly than I thought they would, or, alas, didn't "get it" so I needed to spend more time. I would say this is pretty normal. If I have "extra" time, there is usually another skill we can brush up on, or I play a review game, or let them start their HW (they love this). I have had to switch lesson plans around for the week, if my

students needed more time on a skill or concept. One big thing I have learned to be as a teacher is flexible!

I keep saying I am going to get a clock to put in the back of the room, since the wall clock is behind me when I am in front of the blackboard. I also have heard of some teachers using timers.

I team-teach, so it is more important that I stay on schedule when I have the other class for Reading/English; I only see them for two periods a day. With my class, if I run over time, I can usually just work it out over the course of the rest of the day.