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ach year, I set up expectations with my students for what our classroom should look like/feel like. Our school is a PBiS school so we use a framework of the 4C's to help students make connections to behavior in various classes and common spaces. Thus, each year, my students create a set of norms for Composure, Compassion, Collaboration, and Communication to use each and every day. This year, I decided to "liven" up this process by incorporating a teamwork challenge. It was based on an activity I did years ago in a cooperative learning training and it turned out great! Students were each given a set of tangrams on a piece of colored card stock. Blue represented composure, Green represented communication, Red represented compassion, and Orange represented collaboration. Students first generated a list of characteristics for each of the C's and wrote one per piece of tangrams. Next, students cut out their tangrams and then as a group, they created a piece of art to show what they wanted our classroom to feel like. The caveat? They could only touch their color. Here is what they came up with: I was amazed at their creativity. Some groups talked about shooting for the stars. There was outside of the box thinking and love represented. One group created "paradise"-vacation on the beach.
What do you want your classroom to feel like?
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