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Getting Started
The surveys below are just a way for me to get to know the students a little bit better at a glance. My goal is not to try and pigeon hole them into any one learning style or another but to provide me with a starting point for the students. Knowing how each individual student learns and what motivates them has been another universal theme of the research we have studied this semester. The surveys are something that I will make hard copies of and have the students complete and turn in, but I wanted to have it available on the web for students and parents to refer back to if they want. (Neito and Bode, 2011) (Banks, 1994) (Hu, 2009) (Milner and Tenore, 2010)
 * One of the first things we are going to be doing this year is creating a classroom mission statement. A mission statement is a summary of the goals and values of an organization or an individual. The purpose of a mission statement is to set forth up our goals as a class and spell out how we plan to achieve them. We want to be sure that our behavior and actions in class are aligned with our mission statement so that we can achieve our goals and learn together.
 * I am also going to ask you to take three surveys over the first few days of school about how you learn best. The answers that you provide on your survey will help me work together with you all to create a classroom environment where all of us can learn in the ways that we learn best.



Creating our Class Mission Statement
The class mission statement is something that we will create as a class as a way to build community and have the students take part in setting goals for the class as a whole as well as setting individual goals. Writing our mission statement will be to guide us in how we are going to achieve those goals. The importance of goal setting has been a universal theme in the readings for this class. Throughout the school year, students will be setting long term goals as well as short term goals. Answering the questions below individually and them coming together as a class to discuss them and build our mission statement gives me an idea of what the students are expecting to get out of this school year and what they want to achieve.
 * In order to create a good mission statement, we need input from everyone in the class. Please answer the following questions
 * Each day when I come to class I expect to be...
 * What expectations do you have of your classmates?
 * What expectations do you have for your teacher?
 * If you could get anything out of this school year, what would it be?
 * How can the classroom environment help you to achieve your personal goals?
 * Once everyone has answered these questions on their own, we will come together as a class to create our mission statement. Our mission statement will serve to guide our learning, behavior, and other actions in and out of the classroom.

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