Community building activities classroom high school

Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!

Create a positive classroom culture in your classroom with these five activities

With my yearbook and journalism classes, I want to make sure that all of my staffers and editors feel like an equal, important part of our little classroom

Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community.. #CultofPedagogyPin

The benefits of using a personality test in the classroom: introspection, growth mindset, social-emotional learning, class community, and more.

Are you looking for a fun, engaging, first day of school activity that will help you get to know your students while building your classroom community? This Hexagonal Identity activity will allow students to express themselves, show their creativity, and figure out what they might have in common with their classmates. In the end, you will have a beautiful classroom display that will connect your students as a community! #creativeela #backtoschool

In the first month of school, teachers are usually focused on classroom setup, establishing procedures, launching routines, and digging into the first unit. Although we DO want students to be organized and to feel safe as individuals, we also need them to open up and collaborate as part of a bigger classroom community. Read on for 9 ideas about how to create bonding, shared experiences, and interactions that foster community-building. (By the way, you can check out a similar blog post of…

I dropped the boring syllabus and classroom policy review years ago. Let's admit it: kids block out half of the blah, blah, blah on day one. Your syllabus is best learned through doing. Sprinkle the important stuff throughout the first weeks. Introduce homework policies when kids do homework for the first time, and they'll better remember it anyway. Instead of syllabus and policy review, I spend the first days of school engaging my students in building THEIR classroom community. I am a part…

Looking for lesson plans and strategies for building a strong classroom community in your elementary classroom? These activities and suggested books are perfect for your students during the first week of school and all year long, too! Use these ideas and free printables during your morning meeting or any time as ice breakers and strategies to help build your class community in fun and engaging ways! Click to learn more!