Last semester during field work, my field teacher was all about morning meetings, and found it very successful in her classroom. After three weeks of observing it, there were many things I liked about it, and a lot of things I didn't like about the way that it was carried out in her classroom. I loved that the students were very involved, and they seemed to enjoy it and the content, but morning meeting usually lasted about 45 minutes in her classroom, with no involvement from the teacher. It was all student based, and there was one student leader that lead the class on the smart board for their activities. There were a lot of great ideas this teacher had for morning meeting. For example, she would do a greeting, which we've learned about in class, and she would also do a 'show and tell' type of thing at the end. The students would go over different things like what the weather was yesterday, is today, and a prediction for tomorrow. There would be a greeting with lots of mistakes that the students would have to read, and then correct. Like I said before, there was some of it that I liked, and some that I didn't like so much.
Learning from this, I know for sure that as a teacher, I want and NEED to be apart of this important part of the day! I want to enhance student interactive and encourage class participation. It seems like that is the point of morning meetings. I've realized that I love the parts of her morning meeting that were very interactive and helped the students (not just the one leader) to feel included and familiar with each other, classroom procedures and other content. I'm really excited to learn more about it throughout this semester so that I can successfully implement it into my future classroom. I will be posting more about it as I learn about different ideas and become more clear on the subject!
This was a really great, insightful reflection on morning meetings. Be sure to refer back to this one, in particular, when you create your key assignment later in the semester. 5 pts.
ReplyDeleteThat's cool that you had an experience with morning meeting. I would really like to see one in the classroom. I know there are videos, but it's different with living, breathing children, you know. So, out of all of these things, what would you say was the most effective part about the morning meetings that you saw? What is the most important thing for you to bring over with you when you do the meeting?
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