Day 1 Preparations
- Greet students at door and tell them to sit anywhere.
- Describe my classroom as the collective learning space for all of us during the next year. Students will decide how it is arranged and who will sit where.
- Pass around sign in sheet for one on one interviews with me. These will be 3-5 minutes in length either before school, after school, during lunch or during my prep.
- Talk about my expectations, rules, and procedures. I am your closest ally and will do everything I can to help you.
- Describe the community building activity of Connect the Pics (link to Community Building activities tab here) and pass out the pictures. Allow the students ten minutes to put the pictures in order and figure out the story.
- Before class ends, talk about how the collaboration needed to put these connect these pics is similar to how our class should work everyday. Students should be able to communicate about information they know and about information they want to know as the entire class should always be able to work together.