The Power of Classroom Meeting

While reading this article, I liked when the students were able to express their feelings regarding morning meeting. The three reasons they liked it? They liked having fun, being known and knowing each other, and working on learning processes. It provides such a healthy environment for the students. Just by their responses alone, you can tell how important it is for their growth, both academically and socially. School isn't just for the core curriculum. It's about exposing the students to all the positive and uplifting things the world has to offer them, and it seems like Morning Meetings do that. It allows them to enjoy themselves, their peers, and the knowledge being taught to them. As the article states, some parents had problems really believing that Morning Meetings made that much of a difference. I loved how one teacher handled it. He invited the parents to watch them in action. He also sent home newsletters informing them of the curriculum they covered in Morning Meetings. I think it is so important to let the parents and family of your students be aware of what is going on in the classroom. I think that this allows both the parents and teachers to trust you. After reading both of the differentiation books and now reading this article as well, it just seems that by really showing your students that you care about them individually, they will learn and succeed. But I think that by using differentiation in your classroom, Morning Meetings, and really involving your parents in the classroom, lives can be changed!