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how to face the high school students during the first day of meeting?



Question applies to ages: 14, 15, 16

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Top 5 in: Career Training, Choosing College, Depression and Mental Health, Discipline, Families and Relationships, Health and Wellness, Home Learning and Field Trips, Learning Disabilities and Special Needs, Learning Styles, Manners and Values, Parenting Support, Parents and Schools, Safety, School Policy and Education Issues, Setting Goals and Getting Motivated, Study Skills and Academics, Transitions and Readiness, Students' Civil RightsTop 5 in 18 Topics		 When I was teaching 9th and 12th grade sections, I set up the first day by quickly telling the group what to expect from the course but that we'd be spending this first session with introductions. I'd introduce myself first and tell them a couple of (what I hoped were) interesting things about me as an individual, not necessarily as a teacher, as well as how long I'd been teaching, where I went to school, and so on. Keep it short - no more than 3 minutes or so.

Then I had them pair up with someone who was sitting at least a row away (to avoid pairing with their best friend sitting in the next row). They had 10 minutes to "interview" each other, and then I had them introduce each other to the rest of the class. The format was to tell a couple of usual things about the other person (how long have they been in this school, how many siblings, etc.) but to find one interesting fact about the other person that probably most people don't know yet. I told them the only caveats to what they could tell would be anything related to sex, drugs, religion, or politics!

I've gone through this exercise many times with a classroom of students and also as an adult in a business environment, and I've never seen it not break the ice among a group, even among people who more or less already know each other.

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Former high school English teacher.
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