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More 4 corners or “would you rather” activities to start off class.

Especially with MTL which is "Move to Learn"

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This helps to establish norms in the classroom.

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Four Corner Activities to find commonality with new people

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Name tents, name games in a circle

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Socratic Seminars with "spicy" topics to encourage dialogue and differing opinions.

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Make name tags or tents together and play name bingo. Spend time talking about each others likes and experiences.

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Team Building activities

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Follow the curriculum for instructional pacing.

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Keeping the name tents up but giving the students opportunity to create new ones, with different answers in each corner.

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Having students play four corners or classroom bingo to see what similarities they may have with each other

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Name games, team building games, create own group name using each other's names, class contract.

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Student/Back to School Bingo- builds connections in low-stakes environment

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I like four corners, student BINGO, Would you rather?, etc.

I am super curious for ideas for Stage 3 and Stage 4.

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Giving feedback, celebrating the little things, humor, team building activities

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Things like numbered heads, "Solemates", etc.

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Stations that are a mix of class norms and getting to know you activities. Have them moving instead of me just talking to them directly

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Create a goal to work towards with the students help. Post it and refer back to it for students to see!

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Have students be comfortable with sharing their own thoughts and develop their thinking.

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Create predictable routines and rituals that build security

Establish clear expectations and boundaries before conversations

Use gradual exposure to help students

adapt to change slowly

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I think it is important to explain what this means, especially for middle school students.

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Cooperative learning groups

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Start building collaborative groups by introducing STEM challenges and the concept of working with each other in a science classroom setting

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Earning time to complete assignments for other classes.

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Let kids do a TRF on a problem (academic or personal) they are having and have them do a tutorial on how to fix it, deal with it, etc.

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Purposeful grouping of desks to share collaboration. AVID Claps, shout outs, positive praise.

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A shared PowerPoint file that students in that class have access to. They each create their own slide to introduce themselves to me and each other. (Name, Hobbies, Favorite Historian Quote and how it resonates with them)

I teach 11th grade so a lot of them know each other but we also have 2 Navy bases and get new kids often in such a big school! I use to have them do this on an index card but have LOVED doing the PPT!

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Socratic seminars, goal setting and reflection

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Group Projects that are "gameified"- creating a shared goal that encourages students to collaborate and win.

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Establish classroom expectations and norms

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Especially when they have been given sentence frames to use (elementary) to state their opinions and acknowledge others

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A riff on "Two Truths and a Lie" that I learned for summer institute. Students gather three interesting facts about themselves in their group (I do it every time there is a new seating chart), then change two of those facts slightly so they are no longer the truth. They then guess "who is telling the truth".

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Practice "productive discomfort" - intentional but supported risk-taking

Build resilience through small, recoverable failures

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Have them envision their goals and write letters to their future self. Have them create a vision of their own future and list the steps required to reach it.

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Asking each other questions before asking the teacher, peer feedback

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Team or partner binder checks with interview questions and feedback options. Give one get one compliments, leadership opportunities and community service with each other.

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Fun Friday: Different SEL Activities. Accept mess and loudness.

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The Hot Seat was one of my favorite activities we did this past year. The students were not afraid to ask each other those hard topic questions and there were great conversations that came out of it. I had a boy from Europe and an American student asked "What is one thing you would change about America" and the boy from Europe was comfortable in responding. All of my American students listened and even asked follow up questions to his answer.

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Students track progress and set goals... discuss with group/team. Cheer each other on when success is achieved or when goal is met.

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Snapping Fingers as a way to show agreement!

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Each student is assigned a role, responsible for their individual task, same groups over the course of a unit. Everyone depends on each other to get the job done, facilitated for structured sharing / note taking. Builds trust and collaboration skills while reducing conflict through assigned roles (fewer power struggles).

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Answer Garden! This could be used at any level really!

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Tracking individual student reading goals.

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Read different versions of the same story and discuss what was the same and what was different. Ask students to express their opinions on what they think and feel. Ask the open ended questions that don't have a right or wrong question.

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Define relationship boundaries clearly - what's included and excluded

Build capacity to influence without controlling

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Meet and greet students at the door, allow them to create a handshake, high five etc., and say their name, practice this in different ways

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Tutorials for the content classroom!

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Personal Reflection Questions to understand each other in a deeper capacity

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Acknowledging differences and similarities within our thinking by having them look at others work and or sharing the driving questions we have via online formats/in classroom setting .

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Have a quiet spot in the classroom for those moments.

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A different type of jigsaw :)

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Stage 1 Relational Capacity Activities:

Would you Rather?

I love my neighbor...

Mystery Student

Mingle Bingo

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Give students the responsibility of running their own tutorials with minimal teacher/ tutor input

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Different team challenges- like a marble run, tallest tower, etc. Something meant to be fun but to push their problem solving and collaboration.

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Have a physical problem the kids need to solve and work together to come up with the answer either in groups or whole class.

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A floor maze that students work through collaboratively. It can be found in the WAGS for the 9th Grade Elective, and is a common collaborative/relationship-building activity.

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When conflict occurs or when the class has an "issue" creating a restorative circle works great.

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Philosophical chairs, Socratic Seminars (their choice of topic), current event warm up questions, warm up questions on "hot topics" that they are interested in. Group "we" mentality from the beginning- we are AVID Family- constantly said and modeled by me and each other.

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start with non academic topics

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Teacher takes a supporting role while a student leads a familiar routine / exercise / lesson. Students lead the discussion, only moderated by the teacher when necessary. 75%+ student talk time / voice.

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Minute to win it games are great for this. Creates a positive environment and collaboration.

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Involve students in creating the rubrics for Socratic Seminars

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Provide assistance

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Socratic Seminars/One pagers as a group project 

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Socratic Seminars/One pagers as a group project 

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Having students participate in Socratic seminars to engage with each others ideas or having students do group work using a one pager

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Stage 2: Building "Controlled Chaos" with Collaborative Structures

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Stage 2: Building "Controlled Chaos" with Collaborative Structures

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Some Collaborative Structures:

Defining Group Roles

Numbered Heads

Team Huddle

Pair Share

Team Building