Key Feature 1 – Resources

Key Feature: Gain input from students and their families, review the options with the students in advance, and have a visual representation of them near the greeting location.

Handouts

Documents

Click here for a downloadable and editable email that you can send to families and caregivers asking for help on pronouncing their child’s name correctly and why it is important.

Click here to access a Google doc a teacher created to send out to families asking about their child’s interests, strengths, and preferences.

Videos

This 3-minute video, above, highlights the social connectedness and choice that students have at being greeted at the door.

This 3-minute video, above, demonstrates how greetings can improve student-teacher relationships.

Websites

This website can help teachers remember student names.

This website explains why pronouncing student names is important.

This website provides a useful slideshow on both greetings and farewells.