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We're going to start...if you go into your team builder folder in Schoology.
Go to the vacation assignment.
For vacation, I'd go to blank. You write down where you would go if it was your
perfect vacation. Where would you go and what would you pack?
So team building activities, the purpose for them is to get students to feel comfortable.
7So these team builders are specifically on low affective filter type questions,
things that they feel comfortable about, that they want to talk about, and they're
interested in talking about. So that when I want them to speak about a specific topic,
they can and they do because they already got that part out. They got to share about
themselves, they got to tell each other about what they care about.
So I ask, where would you go? -Japan
-Okay
Um...which like part of Japan would you visit first?
I-I'm not sure pro-probably Tokyo. -Tokyo?
Um...what would you do there?
Probably...
Visit the Suicide Forest? [laughs] -No.
Uh, buy, like buy a lot of stuff
Since money ain't an issue. -Like what?
Like it's a lot of Pokemon over there.
Yeah, I would buy like-I'd buy like all the Pokemon cards.
Japan is like the place where anime and a bunch of games...a bunch of games...
So the team builder activity helps English language learners participate in an activity
where they feel more comfortable. It's something that's more familiar to them
and then when we transfer into the academic topic that includes more academic vocabulary
that's something that they might be more hesitant to participate in, they are more ready
to because they've had that warm up. They've had that practice and they've already
got in a chance to speak with this team and they felt good doing it too.
So they're more apt to participate and then take those risks
and try to share some of their notes and respond to other students.
So what was your's about? -So mine was about the Spartans.
So...um...it talks more about the women in the end so...
they weren't active in the military as the Spartan male, but the female...
they were just educated, they weren't...
with um...they didn't go to wars so...
they were just that. They had more freedom than the helots which were the slaves.
When they got married, since we're going into marriage, uh they shaved off their heads.
-Why do you think they would keep it short? -I think that they do it so instead of
wearing rings, they would show it as a sign that they're married already. So...I'm
taken, go find a different woman. -But what if you already like have
short hair, and people think you're married so no one's like trying to get at you?
When they shaved it, they shaved their full heads.
The first question I have here is if there was a natural disaster, who would you save
your parents or siblings?
So I'll give you [chuckles] some thinking time.
I know I need thinking time for sure. I don't even know if I could come up with a
decision that was too difficult. So sad. But I'm guessing this person wants
one or the other.
Si hubiera un desastre natural, ¿a quien salvarias a tus papas o a tus hermanos?
In order to build a positive classroom environment, I like to do...
the class meeting at the end of the day. So in order to do that I like to focus on
specific questions. At the beginning of the year, I use very easy questions for them
like what's your favorite ice cream flavor? Now after awhile, they start forming their
own questions because I want to take about things they care about.
And students use Poll Everywhere. It's a free application online where I can form
a question like a poll and then activate it for them to jot down any questions
or comments they have throughout the day as they come up with them.
And so then they type these questions and then I have all their results.
Okay, go ahead Stacy.
My siblings because my parents-because my parents would want us to be alive.
That's very deep and a good thought. Yeah, that's right, I agree.
That's a difficult question for us here today.
Alright, Emily.
So I think that this class meeting really helps them in their academic discussions.
It gives them that safety feeling of not being judged, of not being put down
for example when they're speaking of something so personal.
So that when we're speaking in academic discussions, they already feel safe.
They know that it's not something that they're going to be put down for because
they weren't put down in something that was very personal.
If they're feeling comfortable enough to share something personal then something
academic will be fine.
You were given thin clothing and shoes were considered a luxury.
So they would fight-they would fight shoeless. They weren't-they didn't-they
they would fight barefoot. -Barefoot?
-Yeah -What if they cut themselves or on
their foot, or they impaled their foot? -They were considered luxuries,
shoes were considered luxury.
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