Facilitate Incredible Morning Meeting Sharing Time
Morning Meeting Sharing makes up the most personal moments of your circle time. This sharing structure allows students to feel confident and safe to share a piece of themselves with their classmates. It is incredible to watch as students form connections and over time reveal more and more about what makes them special. Let’s talk about how to facilitate this meaningful component of Morning Meeting time. There is a freebie towards the end!
Sharing time is the second part of Morning Meeting. The other parts are the greeting, the activity, and the message. The graphic below shows the order and how they flow together to facilitate a cohesive beautiful morning meeting!
What is Morning Meeting Sharing?
The sharing portion of Morning Meeting is an opportunity for students to bring aspects of their personal life into the classroom and practice social and emotional competencies. There are many different formats that sharing can take depending on the age and personality of your students. Share time practices the skills of thinking, listening, and speaking in a natural real life situation, a conversation.
Teachers can choose whether students will do an open share about themselves of respond to a question/ prompt. There are so many fun engaging ways to use morning meeting sharing to learn new information about your students! I also like to share every once in a while in order to model correct appropriate sharing and to help my students get to know me better too.
Morning Meeting Sharing can become a very vulnerable safe space for students to share. That is amazing and students should feel comfortable to talk about anything, but make sure that you have a plan in place in case on day something inappropriate comes out. Students should know how to show kindness and react appropriately if something is upsetting or embarrassing. Students will look to you for how to respond to sad things, especially in the beginning so make sure to model how you want them all to react.
Importance of Sharing Time
- promotes value and importance of students’ voices and personal qualities in the classroom
- builds relationships and connections between students
- practices respectful listening and empathizing
- practice appropriate questioning and answering in conversation
- provides opportunity for leadership and self esteem boosting with allowing the class to ask questions and comments to the sharer
- strengthens language development
- creates a culture of caring amongst the class
- demonstrates the interconnectedness of students’ life outside of school with their education
- helps students feel comfortable talking in front of others
I want to share a FREE WEEK of Morning Meeting Sharing questions with you to get you started! There are 5 share prompts included in the download. Click the picture above or the button below to download your free week now!
Sharing Resources For You
- Sharing Questions Cards
- Sharing Questions Slides
- 40 Weeks of Morning Meeting Preplanned
- Sharing Seasonal/ Holiday Bundle
