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Eventually students are expected to independently use the Traffic Lights without teacher's instruction to do so. The Traffic Lights should become a silent way of communicating in the class.  
Eventually students are expected to independently use the Traffic Lights without teacher's instruction to do so. The Traffic Lights should become a silent way of communicating in the class.  


Traffic Lights also reduce students' physical stress of standing in queues or raising their hands while waiting for teacher's attention.  
Traffic Lights also reduce students' physical stress of standing in queues or raising their hands while waiting for the teacher's attention.  
 
'''Use of Traffic Lights in groupwork:'''
* It doesn't have to always be the teacher who responds to red or orange lights. Students working in a group can also help each other. In Unit 3 we emphasised that groupwork is most successful when groups themselves are given responsibility for making sure that all members understand. Traffic lights can alert students to the need to assist their peers.
* One Zambian teacher's reflection on trying out the technique:
[Judith quote]


'''Making Traffic Lights:'''
'''Making Traffic Lights:'''