Group Development
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.
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.
Examining Privilege and Oppression
This discussion-based activity guides students in understanding privilege and oppression as concepts.
This collection of activities assists instructors in developing group cohesion, thoughtful engagement, and reflective responses to challenging material.
Mapping Social Identity Timeline Activity
This activity asks students to create a visual map of their socialization in some aspect of identity through the course of their life.
The Personal Identity Wheel is a worksheet activity that encourages students to reflect on how they identify outside of social identifiers.
This reflection-based activity guides students in understanding their implicit racial bias.
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.
In this activity, students spend five minutes writing a brief four-stanza poem about where they are from.
The Spectrum Activity, Questions of Identity
In this activity, students will be prompted to critically consider their identities and the relationship between identity and context.
This guide is intended to educate instructors on trauma-informed pedagogy and the practices they can incorporate into their classrooms.
In this activity, the class sits in a circle while the facilitator poses a discussion question or questions.
In this activity, student groups will work to solve the logic puzzle “Who Owns the Zebra?”