Class Meetings, where everyone shares (or chooses not to) something when they come in first thing on Monday. I model by sharing on a variety of subjects including something we had donated to our class, issues I am dealing with—things working or not working, talking about what I am learning from someone else—a student or another teacher, questions about how to figure something out, something I bought for the classroom, dilemma about issues or just some wonderings. The goal is to model for students how you can bring your thoughts to the group and discuss and figure them out together.
Getting student Input on life skills awards. Instead of me suggesting names for those who should get an award for using a certain life skill, I have asked for names from students of their classmates who they have seen use certain life skills. That went well so far, but I am not sure how that will work if the plan is to give each student an award for at least one life skill. Hopefully I will be able to help them see strengths in each of them. We’ll see.
Classroom arrangement, atmosphere, partnership with the reading buddies, star of the week, songs and music, hug or handshake on Friday, asking for feedback on how they want their birthdays celebrated, and assigning table monitors are some attempts at helping create teams, cooperative learning and release of responsibility.
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