A teaching routine is a small, repeatable move that changes what a lesson is worth. Some are about how children talk to each other — structures that get every voice into the room instead of the same four hands. Some are about how you teach — how you explain, how you check, how you start. There are forty-eight here, and most of them cost nothing but the decision to use them.
The bank is meant to be read as much as used. A teacher who understands why cold calling works, or what goes wrong with a placemat, will run it better than one who follows the steps — so every routine will carry a proper explanation alongside the tool.
Every routine here is described in our own words and named plainly. Where a technique has a known originator — Frank Lyman’s Think, Pair, Share, Elliot Aronson’s jigsaw grouping — they are credited on its page. Sage Teachers is independent and not affiliated with any publisher of classroom-practice materials.