Teaching and learning with morning meeting in elementary social studies methods courses

PurposeUsing morning meeting, an evidence-based practice that is part of the responsive classroom (RC) approach, the authors (two teacher educators [TEs]) created opportunities for teacher candidates (TCs) to experience representations, decompositions and approximations of practice in multiple iterations of an elementary social studies methods course.Design/methodology/approachThe authors detail how TEs can expose TCs to social studies content (e.g. the National Council for the Social Studies themes) that can be incorporated into structured, daily classroom routines, such as morning meeting.FindingsThe authors include TE-created morning meeting facilitation guides with components such as a morning message, greeting, share, group activity and theme justification. Furthermore, the authors outline TCs' reflections on planning and implementing a morning meeting with a partner in addition to their own reflections on the TCs' feedback.Originality/valueThis work has implications related to TEs and TCs in elementary social studies methods courses as well as current and future students in elementary classrooms.

Application of Reward and Punishment in Improving Employee Performance in The Development Administration Section of The West Aceh Regional Secretariat

This paper aims to find out how to apply rewards and punishments in improving employee performance in the Development Administration of West Aceh Regional Secretariat. The problem is focused on the provision of Rewards and Punishments, which have not gone well. To approach this problem, I used the theoretical references from Nnaji-Ihedinmah and Egbunik. The data were collected through a descriptive approach using interview, observation and documentation techniques and analyzed qualitatively. The results of this study are that the application of rewards in the Development Administration section has not been carried out properly. The provision of rewards was not given since there was no budget for giving rewards to employees. The employees only got performance benefits and allowances from existing programs. Rewards in the form of appreciation, neither financial nor non-financial awards were ever given to employees. Thus it can conclude that the employees want the application of these rewards to improve employee performance to be more motivated in doing work. The application of punishment, both in the development administration and during the morning meeting, has been carried out but has not gone well, there were still many employees who do not comply with the regulations that have been made, so it is necessary to carry out a more in-depth evaluation and improve the implementation of the rules more effectively and efficiently.

Morning Meetings: Relevance and Functions in Primary School

The article substantiates the relevance of morning meetings on the basis of the essential characteristics of the practice "morning meeting", the psychological and pedagogical characteristics of junior schoolchildren and the peculiarities of their social development in modern socio-cultural conditions and in a new social situation - the beginning of school life. The author also substantiated the system of functions of the morning meeting: the formation of life optimism; health-preserving; adaptation to school life; positive perception of a new social status / role; the formation of interest in the content of educational activities; acquiring a social identity with a classy team; socio-psychological adaptation; development of a system of communication skills; the formation of emotional intelligence; the formation of social intelligence; diagnostic. All the defined functions of the morning meeting are a system –interact, complement each other. The implementation of this system of functions is provided only if a set of psychological and pedagogical requirements for the morning meeting.