One of the best ways to prevent management problems is by pacing and structuring lessons or activities as
smoothly and continuously as possible. Reaching this goal depends on three major strategies:
• selecting tasks or activities at an appropriate level of difficulty for your students
• providing a moderate level of structure or clarity to students about what they are supposed to do, especially
during transitions between activities
• keeping alert to the flow and interplay of behaviors for the class as a whole and for individuals within it.
Each of these strategies presents its own special challenges to teachers, but also its own opportunities for
helping students to learn.