Morning Meeting

I really enjoyed the reading on morning meeting. I feel that this would and is very beneficial to the classroom. I think that it is important to have a community of learners in the classroom. From the morning meeting packet I really liked where it said "For learning to take place, learners must feel safe." I think that this is a true statement. We need to allow our students to feel safe in the classroom and among their peers. This reminds me of the movie freedom writers. She made her students feel safe inside her classroom. They put all of the gangs aside and actually learned something. No other teacher at the school was able to do this with these students.
In the book Differentiation in Practice I liked when it says "the teacher often provides more than one way for students to show what the know, understand and can do." I think that this is very important because not every student is talented in the same way. It is not fair to the students to only provide one opportunity to show if the student understands or not. If we provide multiple ways for students to share what they know we will reach out to more of them.
I am excited to learn more about morning meetings and how to use them in the classroom. I think that morning meeting will not only be benefical for the students but also for me as a teacher.