Description
Pop Quiz! It’s the first day back to school! Would you like to A) get to know your students, B) give them a syllabus without putting them to sleep, C) let them collaborate without getting out of control, or D) get their creativity flowing?
Who are we kidding? It’s E) ALL OF THE ABOVE and more!
There’s so much to do at the beginning of the year, and we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make the most of the first day and first week back to school. But it doesn’t have to be difficult, because we can use guided stations to do that ALL OF THE ABOVE work for us!
These back-to-school stations can be used for any subject area. The syllabus is customizable in both Google Slides and PowerPoint, and it includes copy and paste stickers for the subject you teach.
Choose from the following stations:
- ALL About Me: get to know your students while they make a name tent for their desk
- Teacher Success Strategies: relationship building
- Student Success Strategies: goal-setting and growth mindset
- How to Be a Good Classmate: create a positive classroom community
- That’s Historical: fun activity that will give you information about students’ writing skills and values
- Let’s Work Together: kids will collaborate to solve a problem
- Course Syllabus: customizable in PowerPoint and Google Slides
- Class Policies: customizable in PowerPoint and Google Slides
Another Pop Quiz! What will you be doing while your students are working their way around the room at their back-to-school stations? A) grinning because the kids are having fun completing the activities, B) smiling broadly because the kids are doing ALL of the work, C) chuckling to yourself as you realize that you’re hitting SO many first week of school objectives, D) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
Yes! D is the answer! Give yourself a donut. 😉
And have an awesome school year!
-Darlene Anne
