Unit 4: Community
Classroom Community
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Introduction
Having a community in your classroom can allow great success for your students. Students who feel comfortable around their classmates and teachers allows them to have greater success.
From the last few units you have gone through communication, respect, and kindness. When you add all these things together you gain a community in your classroom. Through this unit you will be able to uphold the classroom community throughout the year.
Objectives
- Participants students will become more vulnerable with their classmates and teacher.
- Participants classroom should feel as a classroom community.
Lesson
Participants should start by having a morning meeting with their class. Have students sit in a circle. Introduce it by doing simple questions such as what is your favorite color. You should recommend everyone to answer the questions daily but allow them to skip if they would prefer. Daily update the question, keep your morning meeting a fun question. Here is another link with additional information on classroom morning meeting.
When participants need to have important conversations with their students you can re-name morning meetings to Rose & Thorn This allows the students to be prepared when they get asked the question it is going to be more serious. This allows your students to share a rose, something that is good that day, or a thorn something more negative from that day. Students can then choose their own level of what they are going to talk about. Only one student can be talking at a time implement some sort of talking stick to pass around with the students.
Assessment
- Participants classroom will be sharing in morning meetings and the rose and thorn activities.
- Participant will complete the Unit 4: Classroom Community Participant Reflection