Unit 1: What is Morning Meeting?
Unit 1: What is Morning Meeting?
Overview:
The purpose of this unit is to explore and gain an understand of what morning meeting consists of and how morning meeting can be a beneficial tool in your classroom.
Lessons:
- Defining Morning Meeting
- Benefits of implementing morning meeting within the classroom
Unit Objectives:
By the end of this unit you will be able to:
- Define morning meeting in your own words
- Identify two major ways morning meeting can have a positive impact within the classroom
Lesson 1: Defining Morning Meeting
Morning meeting creates a time in your classroom routine to allow students to express themselves. Prompts can be as simple as sharing a favorite ice cream flavor to weighing in on a classmate's conflict resolution. The four key parts of morning meeting are:
- Greeting: Students say "good morning" to each other.
- Share: Students respond to a prompt or to their peers.
- Activity: Students participate in a group game.
- Message: Reinforce a skill or behavior with a letter from teacher to class.
See this article here and the links above!
https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/what-is-morning-meeting/
Lesson 1.2: Benefits of Morning Meeting
Watch this video on the benefits of morning meeting -> Benefits of Morning Meeting
As noted in the video, the benefits of morning meeting are virtually limitless. Allowing students to express themselves encourages...
- Positive Classroom Culture
- Morning meeting cultivates a classroom culture in which all students feel they can share and express their opinions. Students begin to feel a part of the classroom family as a result of being listened to and given ample time to share their ideas/concerns.
- Communication Skills
- Morning meeting encourages students to verbally express their ideas and thoughtfully engage with others. This is a lifelong skill which students will need to cultivate to be successful, not only in the classroom, but in their future relationships and workspaces.
- Problem Solving Skills
- Morning meeting forces students to think outside the box, beyond the scope of their "usual". This allows them opportunity to confront their own ideas with careful critique. Morning meeting also encourages students to tackle difficult issues or ideas as a classroom community.
Check out this article here and the links above, which explain more:
https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=masters-theses
Assessment:
Based on the resources given answer the following questions in the discussion area. Be sure to reference the resources to help explain your thinking.
- In your own words, what is morning meeting?
- What are two positive outcomes that can happen when implementing morning meeting within your classroom?
References:
https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1090&context=masters-theses
https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/what-is-morning-meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMctALPpLF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQvT41T3xs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW6n7Diprtc
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyWADO8Txz84un1fuX9M2dvxvjlHyHYml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPq7JUnLV9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_pLkwaCeY