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Building Communities Within Our Classrooms

Building Communities Within Our Classrooms. Dr. Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller January 28, 2014 Teemant , A. 2013 Vitto , J 2003 Mendler , 2001. “I’m Just Saying!”.

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Building Communities Within Our Classrooms

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  1. Building Communities Within Our Classrooms Dr. Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller January 28, 2014 Teemant, A. 2013 Vitto, J 2003 Mendler, 2001

  2. “I’m Just Saying!” “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  3. Dr. Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller • Southern Northern?? • Baking fanatic • Special Educator • Community Service • Wanna-Be Singer • Montreal lover • Educational Consulting

  4. Let’s talk about… • Making Continuous Connections • Building Community • Create Experience Tables • Build our Community Values • Develop our Classroom Agreements • Rationale • Connecting teacher growth to student achievement

  5. Making That ContinuousConnection • Personal Connection – creating an atmosphere of trust • Academic Connection – presenting a variety of ways each day that promotes student success • Social Connection – bridging the social gaps among students and adults Let’s start building our classroom community!

  6. Who are you? • Find 2 people you don’t know and share • Your name • Where and what you teach • Where were you last year this time • One of your passions (favorite things to do)

  7. Who are we? Move and Talk • Line up by birthday – month and day • Line up by grade level you teach • Form school/class groups • Line up by years/months of teaching

  8. Create “Experience” Tables *Form groups of no more than 4 people in your experience range *Answer the questions below (decide who will be the recorder and reporter) • What is your greatest teaching challenge? • What do you wish you knew more about? • What aspect of teaching do you most want help working on?

  9. Building Our Community Values • As a table group, come to consensus about the values you want to guide our work together. • What would make our learning environment a place… • Where you were actively engaged? • You can’t wait to be part of each day? • Worth coming to each school day? • What values should govern our interaction? • What would make this the safest place to grow? Let’s write our classroom agreements….

  10. Start Building Those Communities! Thank you for sharing this learning experience with me today! jthomas-miller@kokomo.k12.in.usjthomas-miller@comcast.net References: “Relationship-Driven Classroom Management,” J. Vitto. Corwin Press. 2003. “Connecting with Students,” A. Medler. ASCD. 2001.

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