We began by using “Poll Everywhere” a free online polling website that allows students to anonymously text in answers to questions and will create a woordle, web box, chart of graph with students answers.
We discussed instructional strategies students can use in their future classrooms as well as practices they can use in their everyday life to stop and prevent bullying.
Our class will be participating in a
compliment campaign this month. Students will write compliments to other
students each day, creating a chain of positivity in our classroom community.
Each student will be given their final completed chain on Halloween to take
home. This instructional strategy will help create a positive learning environment
and demonstrate how learning can take place over many days.
Students are also encouraged to
begin using social media positively. We have a bulletin board in our classroom
and a twitter count students can tweet compliments at with the hashtag
#kindness grows. This interactive opportunity models how students can incorporate
social media into the classroom.
Our twitter campaign and bulletin board is
based on “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and its tag line is “The Grinch may
have a heart that is two sizes to small… Give a compliment to one and all… and watch
his heart grow big and tall!” Student's can give compliments 4 ways:
1. In person
when they see someone showing kindness or doing anything worthy of praise
2. Writing a
chain link for someone's compliment chain
3. Pinning a
new heart to the Grinch with a compliment
4. Tweeting
out the compliment @exploringteachi #kindnessgrows
Stay tuned to see the impact out #kindnessgrows camping has
during the month of October.
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