How it works
These icebreaker questions for teachers are for a staff meeting, a training day or a new-teacher lunch. Every card is about school life from the teacher's side of the desk, and none asks about pay, results or workload.
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Open a staff meeting with one card
Read the card out and go round the table, one answer each. With a full faculty, press Topic, choose Multiple choice and count hands: "Which duty would you pick: bus line, lunchroom, hallway or recess?" Then press Next card or start the agenda.
Topics for the time of year
Back to school suits the August training days: "What do you promise yourself in August and drop by October?" Classroom stories works once people know each other. No card names or describes a student, a parent or a colleague.
Tips
- At a new-teacher lunch, stay on Supplies and the staff room: nobody needs a year of experience to answer.
- Put one Just for fun card on the screen as people walk in, and the answers are ready when you start.
Questions and answers
What are good icebreaker questions for a staff meeting?
Short ones about the job everyone in the room does: Which supply runs out first in your room? Do you write on the board first or talk first? Each takes a sentence, so a table of ten is done before the agenda.
Are these questions for teachers to ask students?
No. Here the teachers are the ones answering. For questions to put to a class, use the decks for kids and for teens, which are written for students and sit beside this one.
Do any cards ask how long someone has taught?
None. No card asks how long or where anyone has taught, so a first-year teacher and a veteran answer the same question: Which classroom routine do you teach first?