Classroom activities for New-to-You Students

There are always a hundred articles and researches telling you that if you want to interact well with you students and penetrate in, you need to break the ice. There is no point denying that a teacher who students can’t open up to, is a teacher students can’t learn from.

It can be tough, coping with a handful of new minds every year. But if you can break the ice at that point, you’ll probably have a lot better year than those who didn’t.

Here are a handful of extremely entertaining starter activities you can do for new-to-you-students.

1. First things first, INTRODUCTION:

No one can get started before a basic introduction. But how about making some fun out of it? Let everyone make a pair with each other. Encourage the students to let all the embarrassing secrets out and have a go about their friends, and in a minute, you’ll have a classroom full of people who want to say something to balance.

2. Show your strength:

Give you new students a chance to open up. Tell them they have an open chance to show whatever they are good at, they can sing, play music, read a poem, do a monologue, have a go at mimicry, show a gymnastic stunt or show their love for body building. Sky is their limit.

For making sure, these teens look up to the session, put in a price, top three can be first in line for class representatives, along with their pictures on a class board, mentioning; best performers!!

3. Do I know you?

This activity is ideal to have after one or two weeks. Let everyone in the class play detective. Ask everyone to write three things about themselves (basics). Collect all the data.

– Put yours in as well –

Ask all the students to come one by one, take a slip and try to guess who it is in the class

4. True or false?

If everyone tells 1 fun fact and 2 lies about themselves, will you be able to spot true and false? Let your own self be on the testing table and have students try you out. If you spot them, win win! There is nothing better than the feeling your teacher knows you, if not, well you all can have a good laugh!

5. Think it, pair it and share it!

For your first lesson, pick a topic that is the most interesting. Well, even if it’s boring, you have to make it interesting. First lesson, first ice breaker, get the students started to make a flow.

Make sure you choose a topic that has plenty of room to be subdivided. Let there be presentations and hands on experience. Let the students make pairs and give their own presentation / model or what so ever on the given topic! Let there be hustle bustle and preparations. And, let there be recognition. Present their projects in the best way possible to others as well and make them feel like they really nailed it. All the best for them, nailing the project! And for you to break the ice.

Have a happy year!