Daily Class Pledge
Building a Classroom Community (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 2: Consolidation / FluencyStage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
8-12
Grade Range:
3rd 4th 5th 6thFood Groups:
Primary: Classroom Tips
Secondary: Knowledge Building
Transcript
This is our class pledge. Each morning when the kids come into class we all stand and say our class pledge together. Through the month of September we examine our class pledge. We try to determine what our class pledge is asking us to do each day. Once the kinds have the hang of the class pledge and they understand it, we actually don't say it the entire year. There are times when the students ask if they can start saying it again and that's up to them and if they chose to do that than we will do that. But one of the most meaningful activities for me with this class pledge, is showing them where this class pledge comes from. So usually at the beginning of October after we've determined if we are living up to the class pledge, what it's asking us, what it means, I start to talk to them about my experience of watching where this came from. So this class pledge came from a football player's Hall of Fame speech. His name is Floyd Little and in his Hall of Fame speech, he took the time to stop and address children, what he feels they should do to succeed. As he did this he was reflecting on his own failures and successes, not so much as a football player but as a person. It's really meant a lot to me as I was watching it and thought this needs to be incorporated somehow into my programming. So I watched his video and I sort of adapted it to read out as a class pledge. It is really interesting and fun to watch the kids watch his speech after they've said this pledge for so long and start to see how and where this came from.
Activity Objective
The goal of Daily Class Pledge: Building a Classroom Community (Virtual Tour) is to help students build a classroom community by saying a class pledge on a daily basis.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Post inspirational and motivating quotes around your classroom and refer to them during various lessons and activities.
- Incorporate an inspirational class pledge into the daily routine.
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