SALTA 5th grade

Indicator

Yes - Clearly Observed (Strong Evidence of Implementation)

Partially Observed (Some Evidence of Implementation)

Not Observed (No Evidence of Implementation)

Sharing: Students are asked to share information about themselves or to share on a topic related to school (academic or behavioral). Sharing can be: around the circle, partner, or dialogue. (ex: four students share, some students ask questions of those four) Sharing Appropriate Information: Students share information that is aligned to the question or topic and respectful of others.

Sharing topic is aligned with personal, academic, or behavioral expectations.

Sharing topic seems partially related to the student’s personal or school lives.

The topic seems disconnected from the students- students had trouble responding to the topic.

All/ Almost all sharers participate.

Some selected to share do participate.

Few selected sharers participate.

Students focus on appropriate personal experiences, relationships, and items related to social or academic content. All/ almost all stay on topic and share respectfully. The activity encourages student cooperation and/or community spirit. The message is connected to academic and/ or behavioral tasks of the day. Each student has the opportunity to reflect on the message, some or all

Some students focus on appropriate personal experiences, relationships, and items (stay on topic). Some stay on topic and share respectfully. Activity encourages student cooperation but students often do not help each other, work collaboratively or keep the focus on competition. The message exists but could better target daily tasks and/ or only some students hand the

Few stay on topic.

Few share respectfully.

Activity: Activities foster the spirit of community and cooperation.

Activity encourages competition/ does not encourage student to student support or collaboration.

Message: The teacher has prepared a message for the students that is connected to academic learning or behavioral expectations. The message is posted for students to read. Students have the opportunity to reflect upon or respond to the message. Components: All four components of Morning Meeting are taught. (This item applies after the first two or so months of school, when all four components have been scaffolded in or introduced).

There is no message.

opportunity to reflect on or respond to the message.

have the opportunity to respond to the message

All four components are taught: greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message.

Three components are taught.

Two or less components are taught.