Class Meeting

It has been awhile since I have blogged, but it is one of my new year's resolutions to do better.

Today we had a very productive class meeting. It is also one of my resolutions to have more class meetings. They are a great way to problem solve and build community in our classroom. We have a protocol that we follow, which I learned from Mike Holdinghaus (our former social studies facilitator) years ago. This is our procedure and our expectations:

We first make a list of all of the things we have done and learned this week. Then we go through and use a code with dots to mark the things that we liked, the things that help us learn the most, and the things that could have gone better. Here is our list from this (short) week:

We decided to problem solve around indoor recess, especially since we will probably have more indoor recess in the coming weeks. We discussed the biggest concerns (voice level, sharing and cleaning up, and iPad use), and then the students came up with this list of expectations. They wanted them posted in the classroom for everyone to see.

Our teacher assistants and the students reported that indoor recess went amazingly well today. I love when students are involved in decision making in the classroom.