Alber, R. (2016, August 17). 6 opening and closing routines for new teachers. Retrieved January 17, 2017, from Edutopia

Educators should consult with other teachers or come up with their own consistent ways to begin and end lessons to give structure to their classroom and engage students, literacy specialist and Edutopia consulting editor Rebecca Alber suggests. In this blog post, she provides examples of effective opening and closing routines for teachers.