Establishing enabling routines and ‘first day, first lesson’ pedagogy (McWilliam & Taylor, 2017)

In this study of how highly effective teachers establish pedagogical routines with a new class, Professor Erica McWilliam and Dr Peter Taylor found that planning and pedagogy are ‘inextricably linked’ and that ‘first day, first class’ success ‘derives from planning for the pedagogy’ (McWilliam & Taylor, 2017a, p. 56). McWilliam and…