One of my beliefs in education is that if children are part of the process they will work harder. For this reason, I lead my students to develop their own classroom expectations and norms. If a lesson directs me to share a chart of norms or for me to share my expectations, I turn it into a WE situation.
WE need to create our classroom expectation and WE need to agree to follow them.
WE need to create our class discussion norms. For this activity I had to have both of my Literacy Blocks develop their list of norms and then I combined them into one set. Luckily, they organically fell together into two categories and the combination was rather seamless.
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