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This week in class we discussed more examples of morning meetings. I really liked this morning because of the fun ideas for the greetings. I really liked the activity where you throw a ball to someone and they say the name of the person who threw it to them and then they throw it to someone else. I also think that writing questions on a ball and then having the students catch the ball and answer the questions their thumb landed on. This could be a really fun activity for many different questions. You could use it for any subject really just to review what was learned earlier in the week.

We also discussed the hallmarks more in depth this week. It was very interesting to me because there were a few different common themes between the majority of the hallmarks. The first and most talked about one was that you need to keep your end goal in mind when planning. working together to achieve goals was something that was mentioned in quite a few hallmark presentations as well.  Backwards lesson planning and thinking about the outcome of your teaching were also common themes between the hallmarks. I think that it is very important to have all of the qualities that were talked about in the hallmarks in your lessons. I think for some teachers many of these things come naturally for teachers and other things will need work. Just talking about doing these things makes me more excited to teach and make goals for me and for the students I will be working with.