Group cohesion in the classroom is not automatic, and leaving group dynamics to chance makes space for students to create bonds based on prior affinities and biases. These activities help students to examine group relationships and learn about each other beyond appearances on their own terms.
Applying Dialogic Techniques
This resource guide provides an overview of dialogic techniques to integrate with one’s instructional strategies and course content.
In this activity, students play a card game silently, each operating with a different set of rules, unbeknownst to them.
This exercise is designed to allow participants an opportunity to explore their personal values on a profound level.
Group Process Activity
This collection of activities assists instructors in developing group cohesion, thoughtful engagement, and reflective responses to challenging material.
Personal Identity Wheel
The Personal Identity Wheel is a worksheet activity that encourages students to reflect on how they identify outside of social identifiers.
Racial Bias Test
This reflection-based activity guides students in understanding their implicit racial bias.
Social Identity Wheel
In this activity, students will identify social identities and reflect on the various ways those identities become visible or more keenly felt at different times, and how those identities impact the ways others perceive or treat them.
The Five Minute Poem
In this activity, students spend five minutes writing a brief four-stanza poem about where they are from.
This guide is intended to educate instructors on trauma-informed pedagogy and the practices they can incorporate into their classrooms.
Web of Connectedness
In this activity, the class sits in a circle while the facilitator poses a discussion question or questions.
Who Owns the Zebra?
In this activity, student groups will work to solve the logic puzzle “Who Owns the Zebra?”