Questions about the Transitions poster

What’s on the Transitions poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. A transition is any change of activity, grouping, resource or location within a lesson. Each one costs time, attention and behaviour risk, and each is largely under the teacher's control. Six transitions at two minutes is 12 minutes a lesson.; Attention has to be re-established after each one.; Transitions are where off-task behaviour starts.; Fewer, well-rehearsed transitions beat more, varied ones.; Give the instruction before handing out materials.; Time them and say the time aloud.; Materials distributed while instructions are given produces neither. Give the instruc…. Variety of activity is not itself evidence of a good lesson. Each change of activity has to buy more than the transition costs.

Who is the Transitions poster for?

Transitions belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning classroom practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Transitions poster?

Count the minutes lost in your own lesson before redesigning anything else. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Transitions belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Transitions?

Routines, A Behaviour System and Checking Understanding sit alongside Transitions in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.RoutinesA Behaviour SystemChecking Understanding

Is the Transitions poster free to download and print?

Yes. Transitions downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Transitions poster print at?

Transitions is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Transitions loses nothing.Printing guide