Student connection activities

7 Classroom Community Building Activities 7 easy community building activities for the classroom. Get students feeling connected and engaged with closing circles, compliments, community service, lunch bunch and more.

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It's can be a challenge for teachers when it comes to keeping students engaged at the end of school, but it's doable with the right planning.

Some teachers are meeting with students in person for the very first time. Others have been going back and forth between virtual and in-person learning or juggling simultaneous teaching all year. This is definitely the time to focus on strengthen your connection with students. But even if you’ve been in the classroom since the first day, it’s always a good time to strengthen your connection with students. Here are six easy ways to help you do that.

Improve reading comprehension with text connections! Teach students in elementary and middle school to make connections with the text. These engaging activities and examples will help students make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections. Check out the mentor and guided questions today! #readingstrategy #readingcomprehension

Children learn a great deal, academically and socially, by collaborating—working together toward common goals. A good way to help students begin developing collaboration skills is by teaching them how to exchange ideas, information, and opinions as they converse with partners or in small groups. Partner and small-group chats require complex skills best taught in the Read More »

When a poem is new to both teacher and students, there’s an opportunity to find deep personal and cultural connections.

One way to build positive relationships in a classroom is by giving students opportunities to get to know each other’s talents, interests, and stories.

With only 20 percent of teachers identifying as people of color in the US, the country is clearly lacking Black educators. This needs to change.

It's no secret there is a direct correlation between student engagement and academic performance, but many are unsure of how to make the connection consistently. student engagement strategies; student engagement activities; classroom engagement; classroom engagement strategies; classroom engagement ideas; classroom management strategies