1. I chose Mike Anderson, he teaches third grade so I thought it was very fitting to see what he does for morning meeting.
Mike believes that morning meeting not only builds the community but also helps with social and academic skills. Mike will invite parents into the classroom to partake in morning meeting. Some parents are skeptical at times and so he will have them come in and then they quickly change their minds and are also surprised at the many great things that happen during morning meeting. Mike sends a weekly newsletter to let parents know about morning meeting and also about what they are doing that week in other subjects.
Mike believes that morning meeting not only builds the community but also helps with social and academic skills. Mike will invite parents into the classroom to partake in morning meeting. Some parents are skeptical at times and so he will have them come in and then they quickly change their minds and are also surprised at the many great things that happen during morning meeting. Mike sends a weekly newsletter to let parents know about morning meeting and also about what they are doing that week in other subjects.
2. I think that with any person that has the mind frame of wanting to continually learn that they will re-assess what they previously thought or believed. I think Tomlinson had some great things to say in her original list and then she continued to learn about student traits and curricular elements and realized that something was missing. She then added what she thought was very important and re-adjusted her list.
3. I don't think you can necessarily say that one of those three things are more important than the other. I think they are all equally important. If you have two of them but are missing one, then your classroom is not going to reach it's full potential.
Great thoughts about the first and third questions... not a lot of reflection on question number two. In fact, you didn't actually mention the added elements, which is something you will want to learn because you WILL be "memorizing" them in their respective lists. Be sure to answer each part of a question reflectively. 4 points (actually, 3 1/2 rounded up to 4)!
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