The Value of Class Meetings

In a recent Positive Discipline training, Primary Division teachers brainstormed what students learn through participating in class meetings:

• Compromise
• Cooperation
• I’m important
• How to respectfully disagree
• Other people care
• Patience
• Planning skills
• Perspective about problems
• Ability to lighten up
• Strategies for problem solving
• Other’s perspectives
• Prioritizing
• Listening skills
• That they have a voice
• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Taking turns
• There is more than one answer/perspective
• There is more than one solution