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Giving students unstructured time to share, compliment each other, ask questions

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Giving students unstructured time to share, compliment each other, ask questions

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Activities List
Bitmoji Virtual Locker
Padlet allowing Up Vote
Turn your camera on if...
Numbers in your life
Digital Name Tent
Entry Tasks throughout the year
Morning Question Share Out
Timeline of Your Life
Flipgrid of Something Important
Jamboard Their Habitat
Boom-Cards
Stay after and talk
Show off their work

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-Question of the day!
-Games to get to know them.
-Breaks allowing them to have conversations without teacher guidance.
-Making birthday cards for classmates on SeeSaw.
-Letting them lead in the Meet to share screen and lead others.
-Pictures of the kids and asking them who each other are.
-Circle time.
-Helping more reluctant students use the chat feature to share ideas instead of using microphone.
-Online some students are feeling more confident in sharing their ideas and work who are more reluctant to do so in person.
-Allowing students to comment in the stream and asking questions for students to answer to get to know each other.

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--Allow students show and tell time, and then students ca ask questions.
--Have students help each other solve tech problems
-- Let students stay on meeting for a few minutes to greet friends who are in the next meeting (small groups)
-- Have students do art projects that can be put in classroom for their return.
--Make parents part of routine (connect with families, Life Skills students)

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Social meets for morning and lunch time focused on just getting to know each other and playing games together like 20 questions and charades.

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*Afternoon SEL Question of the day
*Small groups- Unmute mics and talk to each other
*Show and Tell Mondays- students are starting to ask questions about each others items
*Benefits of smaller school kids already know each other and excited to see each other
*Sharing pets and other items from home that they wouldn't normally be able to show/share at school
*Unstructured conversational time

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-Monday block allow to chat.
-Staying a little after meetings.
-asking questions for them to share out.
-greeting and saying goodbye to each other.
-a few minutes at beginning and end of meeting allowing them to ask questions to each other.
- use the 15 min. SEL to just talk and let kids chat.

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Student ownership over class norms; Visit students at home to connect in online learning; Playing interactive activity among students (Zoom games, etc.);  Prompt to students: "Tell me something about you that I do not know."; Email questions to students;  "Would you rather?"; Students connect over commonalities and relationships built over time; Breakout rooms; Run Zoom over lunch for kids to connect with friends; Digital nametag in PowerPoint or "Tell me about you."

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Student leadership to help students connect with eachother. This is a common factor in better student to student interaction. If there is student leadership in this area, that makes more participation from other students.

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Deck of Destiny conversation starters from Character Strong Curriculum, Stream in Google Classroom to share ideas/videos/etc., encouragement to have videos on during Kahoot, birthday Jamboards, camera on/camera off surveys

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Silly questions

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Getting to know each other slides so students can build relationships right at the beginning

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Getting to know each other slides so students can build relationships right at the beginning

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Joke of the day and question of the day gets them laughing and starts the conversations

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Getting to know each other family conferences at the start of the year.

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Getting to know each other family conferences at the start of the year.

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Break out rooms for “heads together”

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-virtual scavenger hunt
-SEL time discussions
-Lunch bunch to celebrate birthdays
-sing Happy Birthday during Meet
-Friday show and tell (toys and interests) with students, teachers, classified staff
-If you name starts with A stay in the meeting and let's get to know each other
-topic in Google Classroom Classwork or Stream (Classroom chat) and class public comments.
-Collaborate on Google Docs about own interests
-"Icebreaker" activities

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Student to student time happens when the teacher gets kicked out of the meeting by accident 

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Show and tell, scavenger hunts, giving kids choice on what to find. Might not be conversation, but will still learn about each other by the objects they bring back.

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-Asking lots of questions of the kids, allowing them to start to talk together
-Show & Tell

-Always greet the kids by name when they log-on, consistent routine (Hello/Goodbye song with microphone on, then mute after attendance)

-Help get to know my personality, share personal stories, read aloud. (Building connections naturally)

-Sanford Harmony: Question a day- finding similarities & differences, reading stories about people with similarities and differences. (Great talking points)

-using Jamboard for observation charts/allows them to talk and collaborate together.)
-Using videos to prompt engagement, inviting families into watch these and interact with the class discussions.

-Allowing students to share their screen

-Friendship groups  (counselors offer and then facilitate with ice breakers) K-2 & 3-5 (30 min during lunch, twice a week)
-Ending with 5 min of talk time at the end of class
-Fun Fridays (directed drawings, games, etc.)

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Videos to introduce themselves. Student had this idea and started it, so other students followed (Again an example of student leadership).

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-Share plans for the weekend
-Have students contact absent students
-Pose current event questions
-Breakout rooms
-Shared presentations
-Attendance Questions (Where were you born)
-Chat
-Allow students to stay after

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K-2 Lunch Bunch and 3-5 Lunch Bunch, kind of chaotic, but it is a social time with kids bop, go noodle, and show and tell. We just each lunch together and talk about plans for the weekend.

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Breakout rooms
Jamboard
Camera on

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15 min sharing at beginning and end of class.
Circles - practice listening to each other
Art at end of day, share our and give compliments
Joke of the  day, students guess answer
Travel Tuesday and Throwback Thursday - students share
Question of the day on Padlet for students to share
Friday and Monday sharing about the weekend
Send postcards to students
Dance parties

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Rolling with technology difficulties and showing them your human, accessing the use of breakout rooms to provide students a smaller environment to comfortably talk, use of CharcterStrong Relationship building toolbox from 2020 Lessons, allowing time for off task conversations

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Finding positive things to notice about other students.

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Using Padlet has given students the choice to add their voice when talking to each other hasn’t worked and prompted them to respond and generate discussion.

Character Strong lessons from advisory have really helped build relationships and pulled across to our other content classes.

Using the breakout rooms has made it really easy to build student to student relationships.

Using Padlet and having a questions for them in the chat everyday that is low risk that generates a lot of responses. Ex: What’s the best present you ever got or favorite food.

Amanda: Using the chat a lot to let students respond. When students turn on cameras they really start bonding because they can see each other and will make comments about what they see in their screens. The kids that turn on their screens are getting more out of their educations.

Spend the first 10 minutes of class everyday talking to them. Fist of 5, how was your weekend? What are your plans this weekend? What color is the shirt you are wearing? What did you eat for breakfast? Using the number system for the chat to make low risk check ins.

I chat with them quite a bit, asking questions, letting kids ask questions. I make sure to check in with specific kids and build relationships. I use music every day in class. I switch it up everyday and the kids like to comment. Take requests and the kids talk about their choices.

Working with students individually and with seniors. Building relationships from previous years.

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- Breakout rooms
- Collaborative work in Slides
- Teaching certain words to build unity (Sawubona - "I see you")
- Question of the day in the chat
- Gallery walks for conversation
-  Random Kahoots for teacher to participate instead of only lead

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Primary Specialists, interventionists and first grade teachers

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Primary Specialists, interventionists and first grade teachers

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Be goofy, joke around, ask questions,.
Give time for students to visit with one another.
During break times, allow them to visit.
On asynchronous videos, letting their feedback shape future lessons.
Giving students choice on activities.
Sharing prompts every morning and afternoon.
Journal writing.
Listening to students.

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Make connections with the those students. No pressure on assignments, instead discuss hobbies, etc.
Connection is important. Beyond the day, this is what students remember!
Discuss goals, listen to their goals.
Be willing to support them and give them guidance. It's going to get better.
Build trust with students and families. Break barriers down.

Be intentional when saying hi to students. Simple tasks/things make a big impression on them.

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Student who said, "I can't"  Changed the narrative to "I can..." by teacher asking, "Can you do...?"
Help students say "I can try!"
Home visits.
Working towards a goal with a fun experience as a reward.
Spending lunch time together.
Connect with students on similar, interests and strengths...results in better effort in class.
Talk to them and listen to them.
Student journals.
Encouraging words from teachers.
Believing that they can do it.

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*Watch for the positives, praising specific behaviors
*Honest- "I know that you can" share high expectations. Let them know we believe in them. They will rise to the challenge
*Determine interests and support that. Attend sporting events, student shared future goals- help find resources to help student move towards goal. Let them know you will not give up on them.
*Help teach strategies on how to interact/speak with others in a positive way. Help teach them to be a cheerleader to others. Pull aside outside of classroom time to provide an opportunity to try skills.
*Giving 1:1 time and the opportunity to speak. Finding a point of connection and building on that.
*Helping students keep their dignity in a moment of crisis.
*Children need authentic examples of caring and investing in them. Authentic examples of growth and change. Feedback- providing what students can/need to do. Builds hope and encouragement.
*Providing support and scaffolding and encouragement. Building hope and resiliency.

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Whole Brain Teaching Strategies:  Example--When a student shares, we say thank you, their name, and then they respond back with you're welcome.

It really does come down to relationships.

Putting in the work to help that individual student find true, authentic success that they can feel and see.

Dismissing students one at a time, then leaving the one that you really need to touch base with until the end, so you can encourage and check-in about how things are going.

Acknowledging participation, getting excited and noticing/mentioning when they log on late.  Welcome them no matter when it is that they come onto the class.

Connecting to what they know from last year, and making connections to their strengths.

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Keeping those kids towards the end to help more individually.
Breakout room 1 on 1.

Find a teacher that is connecting with that kid to help get them motivated.

Having their particular assignments and being with them to support the entire time and continuing with positive reinforcement. Building on positive momentum.
Pulling out of class and making an appointment for 12PM. Working together during lunch. Contact with parent has helped.

Intentional pairing of kids to help others along and cultivating friendships.

When I worked at Richland we ran a specific program - Check and Connect. They identified at risk kids, then basically asked people to look through the list for a student or two that they had in class or had some sort of connection with. You were then that student's "person". You intentionally focused on those one or two, calling them in outside of class to check in on grades or how other things were going, helping them see places they could improve in classes, and helping them learn ways that they can advocate for themselves. . .

Yeah! We had that at my first school...so we had 1-2 mentees that we met with regularly...don't know how that would work virtually but it did help in person

A lot of informal SEL checks, a soft start of class, first 10 and last 10 are for the students not for as well as multiple check-
ins. Doing one on one conferences. Kids are in one on one with the teach while the
other students work asynchronously.

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- Special Ed 3-5- students help other students who are struggling!
- Using the annual graduation walk-though at the elementary level as a real-life example/vision for our elementary students to set their sights on
- Personally/connecting with our 21% in the morning before instruction (giving them one-on-one connection)
- Introduce our current students to a past teacher we are in contact with to show that if they want to stay in contact with us, we will be there for them!
- Allow students a chance to "earn" lunch with the teacher, allowing students to get to know the teacher in a less formal setting.
- Taking time to catch-up with students to listen to what their education experiences were like/ what do they wish we would have known?
- Noticing our 21%. This matters to them, when we take time to notice them and acknowledge and give value to them.

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- Celebrating even the smallest successes
-  One on one meetings in advisory
- Sanctuary table for kids having a bad day and needing a safe space
-  Home visits
- Mailing things home (books, etc.)
- Be real and honest with students about the hard things in life
-  Coming to extracurricular activities
- Classroom meetings

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-Private flip grid messages
-Praise
-Building Relationships during recess, lunch
-Time to visit student to student
-Eat lunch with the teacher
- Asking students about themselves and their interest
-Morning check-ins
-Find something they are interested and bond over that
-Go to a student's event outside of school
-Small group time lends it's self to more student interaction
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-Details about your life
-Find out their interests
-Show up to their extracurricular events
-Let them know you care
-Give them hope
-Reach out to former students
-Provide feedback
-Give them responsibilities
-Don't give up on them

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- Intentional about what to celebrate
- Allow them to be successful at something whether it is handing out notes or helping you clean (give responsibilities)
-Having autonomy over yourself and your choices with decision making
-Find out what they are interested in and use that to build a stronger rapport
-Praise the positive things that they are doing or what you are seeing (catch them being good!)

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Building relationships with students is key:

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Building relationships with students is key:

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*connecting with students about their personal interests, especially foot at secondary level
*meeting students where they are in time and space
* Listening to students
* Finding and connecting with their personal interests/ motivation/ goals
* Show respect for students, you believe in them and are a person they can trust, you will advocate for them