Learning Plan

For Advanced Learning Option

Ability to actively listen to students and to learn from them and other non-conventional sources of knowledge

Goals and Outcomes

I can facilitate opportunities for students to share and present their learning to a supportive audience.
I can continue using class meetings to foster a positive environment in my classroom.

I will practices the targeted skills in this module by . . .

creating an opportunity for my students to share their learning with an audience,
using class meetings for students to share their ideas and help plan their event.

Watch

Learn about the national movement to get 5 million students publicly sharing their learning with an audience beyond the classroom by June of 2020 and the power and value of having students share their learning with a wider audience.

Morning Meetings From Pre-K to 12th GradeDaily discussions and team-building activities meet the physical, social and emotional, and spiritual needs of students.

Watch this class meeting video as a review, if needed.

Read

Select “Tool Kit” from the menu of the Share Your Learning website and browse the three different ways listed for sharing learning, exhibition, student led conferences and presentations of learning.

Choose one to do with your students.

POL-Toolkit-Web.pdf

This document is a great resource for the why and how of POL, as well as helpful examples to get started.

Review

These are the basic steps for a class problem meeting, as described in Positive Discipline in the Classroom by Jane Nelsen, Lynn Lott, H. Stephen Glenn:

Steps in facilitating a class meeting

1. Form a circle – no one outside the circle

2. Compliments and appreciations

3. If applicable: review previous issues and solutions: are the solutions working? Go around the circle and check.

4. Introduce a new issue to be discussed, summarizing comments in the agenda book.

5. Discuss the issue without offering solutions. Students describe the problem.

6. On the next round, students offer suggestions for solutions for the problem.

7. As a group, come to consensus about which solutions to try.

8. Finish the meeting with announcements for the class.

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Below is a longer set of readings on Class Meetings. You do not need to read through all of it, but there is useful information on how to conduct class meetings on page 4. Unlike the directive on the bottom of page 1, classroom meetings do not have to be held every day! Once a week can be quite sufficient, as it usually takes 30 minutes to complete all the steps in a class meeting.

class meetings handouts.pdf

Try it!

Task 1: Facilitating Classroom Conversations

Hold at least two class meetings for students to share their ideas and plan for their “Share Your Learning Event.”

Try it!

Task 2: Hosting a Share Your Learning Event

Create an opportunity for students to share their learning with an authentic audience. This could be connected to the community history project you do with them in Core Practice A or a different event.

Reflect

Complete Module D, Task 1 and Module D, Task 2 in Canvas, which ask you to reflect on the following components:

How did you use class meetings to help gather and use student input for the event?
What might be some other opportunities to use a class meeting format to listen to students’ voices and learn from them?
Give a description of the “Share Your Learning” event. Include when and where the event took place and who was invited (parents, a specific group of community members, etc.)
Write a brief reflection on how the event went.
If possible, upload 1-3 photos of the event.
What might be other opportunities you could create for your students to share their learning?