Using a morning meeting...
Establishes a consistent interaction with the class as a community.
Allows students the opportunity to share and express feelings.
Gives students a structured and supervised opportunity to express themselves.
Overview
A structure that consists of a circle or other community building format.
The meeting must occur in the general timeframe of the start of the day.
The meeting structure consists of 4 parts.
Greeting
Sharing
Activity
Message
Core Components
Maintains all 4 parts
Greeting
Sharing
Activity
Message
Happens consistently
Gives space for community building
Proactive Implementation
Proactively introducing morning meeting requires a set time within your master schedule allotted for morning meeting to occur. This must be done consistently.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively introducing morning meeting typically results from a need for community. Discussion with the class must be had and time must be held scared to adding morning meeting to the schedule.
Connection
If the need is connection then consistency with all four parts must be held where all students have the opportunity to share.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then the activity may invovle a specific targeted skill each day.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then students may speak to topics that require perspective taking during the share period.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then the activity may be a different breathing exercise or other regulation.
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.