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- Ask questions! If a child asks you a question turn it back on them. "Where should we put this paper when we are done?" "What do YOU think?"
- Differentiate! There are different levels and styles of learning within a classroom.
- Have things ready for those who finish early!

As teachers, it is our job to teach. However, it also is our job to learn and reflect and grow. Here are some important things I have learn thus far as a teacher.
- Model. Model. Model. Model everything for the students. Whether it is how to sharpen a pencil or how to write a poem, modeling is a visual for the students and they are more likely to follow exactly what you did if you just show them how!
- Ask questions! If a child asks you a question turn it back on them. "Where should we put this paper when we are done?" "What do YOU think?"
- Differentiate! There are different levels and styles of learning within a classroom.

Often, teachers talk AT students or TO students

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Recently, I have been trying to engage myself in a new way to meet in the morning, and that is through the Responsive Classroom's Morning Meeting. Morning Meeting is a way to create and then maintain a sense of unity and community within the classroom and school as a whole. There are four main aspects to Morning Meeting: 1) Greeting, 2) Sharing, 3) Group Activity, and 4) Morning Message.

Recently, I have been trying to engage myself in a new way to meet in the morning, and that is through the Responsive Classroom's Morning Meeting. Morning Meeting is a way to create and then maintain a sense of unity and community within the classroom and school as a whole. There are four main aspects to Morning Meeting: 1) Greeting, 2) Sharing, 3) Group Activity, and 4) Morning Message.

Collaboration is a great way to share different teaching strategies and ideas, and discussing the things that are and aren't working within the classroom curriculum. It's important to see other perspectives and views of teaching besides your own.
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One of my best experiences with collaboration was during my time as a student teacher. Not only was I learning from my cooperating teacher, Connie, but she was learning from me. Together, we worked on something completely new to both of us : Book Club. We created a progression of lessons together, which are shown below.

Welcome to Miss Amanda's Wikispace!
I plan on using this wikispace as a vehicle in my professional development as an educator.
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