✨TIPS FOR KEEPING YOUR WHOLE GROUP MINI-LESSON MINI✨ It took me 9 years to figure out how to keep my whole group instruction within about 20 minutes. Here’s how I finally got there: 1 - I stopped following the teacher’s manual to a T, and focused on how to to get my students from point A to mastering a particular standard. The manual became a resource I may or may not pull from. 2 - I made sure what I was teaching directly tied to what the students were practicing & chose 3-5 examples to work th