SIPD Webinar for Early Grade Teacher Topic: Morning Meeting Date & Time: Tuesday, December 8, 2020, 3:15 PM) Facilitator: Naureen Faisal Session Focus: The session will help teachers to conduct effective morning meetings to improve students' cognitive, language, physical and social-emotional development. #ECCE Teacher #Teacher Education

1. Morning Meeting
Naureen Faisal

2. Transform your day with these
Morning Routines

3. Make the first moments of
your day count! Establishing a
consistent morning routine
with clear expectations
will help the rest of the school
day run smoothly.

4. Morning Meeting
• originated from the Responsive Classroom model
• An engaging way to start a day
• Use first 20–25 minutes of class time to check in with
their students
• Students sit in Circle (inner circle and outer circle)
• Use variety of ways to make morning circle
• Teacher and students interact with one another during
four purposeful components

5. Effectiveness of Morning Meeting
• Helps create a reliable routine.
• Prepares them for the learning ahead.
• Gives students a consistent opportunity to share their
feelings.
• Allows teachers to build strong relationships with their
students.
• Sets students up for success socially and academically.

6. Continue…
• Sets the tone for respectful learning
• Establishes a climate of trust,
• Motivates students to feel significant,
• Creates empathy and encourage collaboration, and
• Supports social, emotional, and academic learning

7. Component of Morning Meeting
• Greetings
• Sharing
• Group Activity
• News and Announcement

8. Greeting
• Students and teachers greet and welcome each other.

9. Activities
Good morning Ibrahim (add hand shake, high five, foot
shake, fist-bump)
Different Languages for greeting
Hello Neighbour
Ball-Bounce Greeting
Marble Greeting
Elbow rock
Compliment Greeting
Action Game name

10. Remember
• Don’t forget to make eye contact
• Face the person you are talking to.
• Speak clearly

11. Sharing
• Students share something
about themselves or
their lives, and the rest
of their peers listen,
then ask follow-up
questions or offer comments.

12. Suggested Activities
• Discussion(donate toys, story characters, hobbies, do
and don’ts)
• Share an event, story
• Bring objects to describe
• Bring recycled materials and explain how it could use
• Bring photo album to describe

13. Remember
• Keep it short
• Involve everyone
• Follow social skills

14. Group Activity
• The group completes an activity that encourages
teamwork while re-emphasizing social or academic
skills.

15. Activities
• Manipulating material related content
• Role Play
• Art and craft
• Illustrated Story/ story map
• Sensory practice
• Experiments
• Practice Rhymes/songs

16. News and Announcement
A morning message,
which is a short note from
the teacher that explains
the day’s events and
objectives

17. Sample News and Announcement
Dear First Grader
Today is Tuesday, December 8,2020
It is the 352 day of the year.
We have art today. We will read a
new story and do math worksheet.
We will learn about parts of plant.
Let’s have wonderful Tuesday
Love
Ms Naureen

18. Morning Meeting Rules
• Come empty-handed
• Sit in circle, crisscross
• Keep your hands in lap or at your side
• Make space for everyone
• Everyone participate
• Respect one another
• Listen to the speaker
• Raising our hands when we want to talk
• Speak clearly
• Have fun

19. COVID -19
• Schools around the country are closing indefinitely
while we prioritize the health of our people, the
stability of our healthcare system, and the lives of
those most threatened by COVID-19.
• School administration and teachers are working
carefully to ensure that learning continues from home.
• Teachers can continue to foster their classroom
communities while we are apart.

20. How to conduct Virtual Morning Meeting

21. Virtual Greetings
• Funny face greeting
• Wink greeting
• Wave greeting
• Fist bump
• Hand raise
• Virtual Hug
• Air High five
• Raised Hand

22. Sharing
• Share news more special from home
• Take a photo of themselves and record a short bio.
• Make a video of a living room and describe it.
• Share personal favourite (book, season, food, place)
• Hi-Lo share one high (something positive)and one low
(something negative)
• One-Word each student shares one word to describe
how their day, their week, or how they feel.

23. Continue…
• Rose-Thorn and bud each student shares a rose
(something exciting or happy), thorn (something
disappointing or challenging), a bud (something they
are looking forward to)
• Show and tell students shares an object and tells about
its importance

24. Remember
• It is connection not content.
• It should be short
• Show them that you are happy to see them
• Every student does not get chance to share but keep track
who had turn or not yet
• Spend no more 10 minutes for sharing (student may loose
interest)
• give students an overview of what to expect during their
day of virtual learning or end the meeting.
• Be sure to you control mute and unmuting students

25. THANK YOU

26. Question and Answer
Session