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Teachers who are effective classroom and behavior managers must master a range of strategies and skills, and an essential component is developing and implementing effective strategies for students to transition between activities (Hine, Ardoin, & Foster, 2015). Smooth and quick transitions help decrease wasted time. Schmit, Alper, Raschke, and Ryndak (2000) found that approximately 25% of daily time is taken for transition activities for elementary and preschool children. Jones and Jones (2010) stressed that student behaviors promoting quick transitions from one activity to another need to be explicitly taught with high fidelity. Conversely, lack of instructional consistency and fidelity on student behavior or practice in the maintenance of routines often results in a disorganized and chaotic classroom that reduces engaged and, consequently, learning time, for the students and creates behavior management issues that hamper the educational process for teachers (Codding & Smyth, 2008). One particularly effective approach teachers can use to increase consistency and fidelity of promoting quick transitions and increasing rates of on-task behaviors is video modeling (Cihak,