Just Some Thoughts...

As I've been observing for the past two weeks, I've learned that meeting students' needs and classroom management are KEY in making your classroom run effectively and successfully. As I've thought how I can build a community classroom environment, I've thought how my cooperating teacher structures her classroom and what I hope to take and use in my future classroom.

I believe one of the main aspects in building an effective classroom community is doing so by giving students equal opportunities, pushing them above and beyond their abilities, and providing motivation to each student as an individual. It’s my main goal in my classroom to assure students feel safe, accepted, and comfortable. To build my own effective classroom, I want to make it top priority to implement Morning Meetings into my daily schedule, to meet individual students needs and to differentiate each and every instructional lesson to help meet the needs of my students as individuals.
Morning Meetings can literally change the lives of students every day. When you use the Kriete model in your classroom, it gives students opportunities to learn about each other and grow together as friends inside and outside of the classroom. As a future teacher, I believe Morning Meetings establish a safe environment for students to learn as well as giving them opportunities to grow together. I want to implement Morning Meetings into my classroom and give my students the opportunity to feel comfortable with each other on a daily basis.
I want to be the teacher who gives all students the opportunities to have daily affirmations, make contributions to the classroom, feel the strength of power, feel they have a purpose in all they do, and make learning a personal challenge to strive above and beyond. I feel the above student needs are crucial to the classroom and the way students learn. I will be the teacher to give my students all they need in order to feel successful and to reach their dreams everyday in my classroom.