Comments on: Team Building Tuesdays (part 1): Team-building Activities for the Secondary Classroom https://thedaringenglishteacher.com/team-building-tuesdays-part-1-team/ Ideas for middle school ELA and high school English teachers. Engaging and effective ELA lessons and teaching strategies. Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Unknown https://thedaringenglishteacher.com/team-building-tuesdays-part-1-team/#comment-12 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:20:04 +0000 #comment-12 If you have each kid decorate a hexagon-shaped paper with their personal interests or facets of their identity, they can find a way to connect their hexagons with the rest of the class through shared interests/traits, making one big puzzle. It worked well with my 10th graders and forced them to find someone in the room that they shared a connection with.

]]> By: Unknown https://thedaringenglishteacher.com/team-building-tuesdays-part-1-team/#comment-11 Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:10:55 +0000 #comment-11 Hi Christina!

When you get the chance, would you please add a photo of a completed "quilt" so we can see the results?

I had wanted to do something similar using the analogy of a puzzle, but was intimidated by having to find a way to make all the odd shapes so I just gave up. However, with a quilt's square pieces, it's just a quick trip to the teacher work room to use the paper cutter, right?

Thanks for all the fantastic content you provide for us. I really enjoy following you on Instagram.

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