About the class – Ms. S. Sokugawa
 

About the class

Welcome to Ms. Sokugawa’s classroom.  My classroom is built on the Tribes Learning Model (TLC) that creates a safe and inclusive environment to encourage and enhance learning in each student.  Through Tribes, students gain skills so that they can work collaboratively with others in a respectful and caring environment to reach a particular goal, resulting in knowledgeable, accountable, and responsible individuals. 

Division 14 follow the Tribes Agreements in our classroom, and around the school, to help them be “Safe, Kind, and Fair”.  The points of the Tribes Agreements include the following.  Our Tribes Agreements are posted up on classroom wall so that the students can refer to them at any time.   

1.Attentive Listening 

This means that everyone listens with their ears, eyes, and heart.  When we are listening attentively, there is only one speaker at a time, and everyone is looking at the speaker and listening carefully to what is being said.   

2. Mutual Respect 

This means that everyone treats others the way they want to be treated.   

3.Right to Pass/Right to Participate 

This means that everyone needs to make good choices by thinking of what the repercussions for their actions are before doing them.  No one can make a person learn, or do anything, as that is up to the individual to decide.  However, everyone else has the right to learn with minimal disruptions from others.   

4.Appreciations/No Put Downs 

This means that everyone has a right to feel safe in their learning environment without having to hear hurtful words. This includes words that they used about themselves.   

5.Personal Best 

This means that everyone needs to try their best in everything they do by giving their best effort, aiming to learn what is being taught, and not looking for just the perfect score. I also remind them “Don’t stop until you’re proud”. It is listed on my “Quotes” page. 

This picture below is a picture of the ideas the students thought of when I asked them to think about what makes a safe and happy classroom.  The words in orange are the words that the students said. The words in red are the Indigenous “Seven Sacred Teachings”. 

Tribbles

The Tribbles help to share how we are feeling (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) during our community circle. 

Math Tool Bag and Expressive Bag

 Expressive Bag

Math Tool Bag

What does Attentive Listening look like, feel like, and sound like.

This is the basics of many things in our world, but especially important in reading, writing, and doing math.

TAPS (Talking About Personal Space): In our class and school, we need to maintain personal space. Going left to right shows the appropriate level of touch. We should always remember to keep our hands and feet to ourselves (“No touch”), but sometimes we give a friendly touch or invade someone’s space accidentally. As we go further to the right, the touches become less appropriate in a class and school setting.

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