Activities List

Classroom 

Activities

Professional Development Activities:

Building Knowledge

• Roundtables 

• Research Teams 

• Positive Sharing

• Reading Groups

• Brain Picking

• Learning Goals

Finding a Philosophy of Teaching

• Ground Work

• Shared Insights

• Your Story

• Gaining Perspectives

• Surveying  

• Memories

• Reflections Journal

  Identifying Workplace Values

• Reflections

• Identifying Values

• Primary Values  

• Values Challenge

• Personification  

• Values Brainstorm  

• Values Profile Card

Assessing Teaching Strengths

• Reflections

• Highlights

• Expectations 

• Video Taping

• Classroom Time

• Personal Inventory 

• Student Feedback

Improving Classroom Management

• Reflections

• Self-Assessment

• Roundtable

• Analyzing Environments

• Management Style Interviews

• Interview Questions

• Management Goals  

  Vision/Mission/Goals

• Reflections

• Statements of the Ideal

• Characteristics of the Ideal Teacher

• Characteristics of the Ideal School

• Student Envisioning 

• Metaphor 

• Scenario

• Mission Statement and Goals 

Improving Student Relations

• Reflections

• Student Discussion Group

• Teacher Interviews

• Self-Assessment 

• Video Appraisal

• Observations 

  Shaping Student Discipline

• Reflections

• Setting a Tone for Good Discipline

• Discipline Plan

• Discipline Scenario

• Discipline Support Group

  Enhancing Student Expectations

• Reflections

• Conditions for High Expectations  

• Expectations Poster

• Statements of Negative Expectations

• Developing Rewards

  Building Solid Planning Habits

• Reflections

• Time Management Awareness

• Strategy Distribution

Developing Clear Assignments

• Reflections

• Assignment Clarity

• Clear Objectives

• Assignment Sins

  Ongoing Activities

• Teaching Tip Card File

• Best activities Collection

• Video Taping the Pros

• Teacher Roundtables

• Teaching Journal

• A Dozen Personal Inquiry Questions

• Professional Reading Group

• Characterize Your Teaching

• Student Insight Groups

• Improving Student Discussion