Community Building Facilitator Guide (pdf)
Community Building Synchronous Learning Slide Deck
Community Building Synchronous Learning Slide Deck (PPT)
Community Building Synchronous Training
Overview
Community Building is an interactive synchronous training for teachers. It explains the importance of a classroom community and the positive effect it has on student learning. It provides many examples and opportunities for teachers to think about their class communities and how to strengthen them.
This is a facilitator guide for the Community Building synchronous training.
Slide Number | Information |
Slide 2-Create an Answer Garden | Video shows how to create an Answer Garden for the presentation. Delete this slide and save a link to Answer Garden to share with participants in a later slide. |
Slide 3-Would You Rather | How does this build community? - note that community building is humanizing Click on the link to access the Would You Rather game. Presenter can copy the game and adjust the questions based on the audience. |
Slide 5-Share Answer Garden created earlier | ***Make sure you created your Answer Garden beforehand. Introduce the Answer Garden and use this time as more independent thinking and processing. Participants should add a word or two to the Answer Garden. As a group you will process this more on slide 9. |
Slide 6-Community Norms | Make sure to drive the message that it is important not to have rules… to build and foster classroom community you need clear agreed upon expectations. #1-4 - norms for this session #5 - we will talk more about the “talking piece” later in the presentation |
Slides 7 and 8-Diversity & Inclusion Asks… Equity and Social Justice Responds... | Review this slide as questions to ask before setting norms, procedures or other... |
Slide 9-Back to the Answer Garden Time Goal - 30 minutes into presentation | Keep in mind the diversity, inclusion and Equity chart. How does this build community? |
Slide 10-Loose and Tight Community Customs | Consider letting teachers spend a bit of time looking at this lesson on the difference between laws and customs. How Do Rules and Traditions Shape Communities? Article Link What is a Law? What is a Custom? PDF Link Stress that you are building customs. Customs change and adapt, but at the root remain the same. |
Slide 11-Loose and Tight Examples | How does this build community? ***Set up breakout rooms |
Slide 12-Hand Signals | How does this build community? Examples of expectations:
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Slide 13-Accountable Talk | Accountable talk takes place when there is a meaningful conversation focused on a topic/book. It is important all participants add to the conversation so it grows and deepens the understanding of the group
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Slide 14-I’ll Take It...I’ll Toss It (Ice Breakers) | Ask participants to add Ice Breakers into the chat.
Discussion - how do they work with these guidelines How does this build community? |
Slide 15-Story Time Time Goal - 50 minutes into presentation | Link to article: Storytelling Honors Student Experience Call on a few volunteers to share their example |
Slide 16-Create Flipgrid | ***Create a Flipgrid to model a Flipgrid debate. After creating the link, delete this slide. |
Slide 17-Flipgrid Debate Time Goal: 1 hour into presentation | Set a time limit for this activity. Recommend about 10 minutes. Tell participants to choose 1-2 videos to respond to by finding one way you agree and one way you disagree or could challenge their thinking. Make sure everyone gets a response by responding to those without responses before responding to someone with 1-2 responses. If someone has 3 or more responses, find someone else to respond to. |
Slide 18-Fish Bowl Reflections | Video: 2 minutes Online Teaching Adaptation: Fishbowl Video Link |
Slide 19-Jigsaw/Expert Groups | Video: 6 minutes Jigsaw Video Link A Jigsaw or Expert Groups provides more structure for younger students, ELLs, and struggling readers. After introducing the idea of a Jigsaw, click video to load the 6 minute video demonstrating Jigsaw in an in-person elementary classroom. Ask for volunteers to discuss the question under the video. |
Slide 20-Fishbowl-Your Turn Time Goal: 90 minutes into presentation | Time on slide: 10 minutes How does this activity build community? Presenter has options here. Could ask for volunteers to model a fishbowl discussion. Could use breakout rooms to have small group discussions. |
Slide 21-Choose One, Create, and Delete This Slide | ***Create a Padlet or Jamboard using one (or more) questions on the next slide. Then delete this slide. |
Slide 22-Padlet Reflection | Give them time to answer questions on Padlet and then discuss. Note that Jamboard is another example of a technology you can use. How does this activity build community? |
Slide 23-Closing Circle *Cutting for time - if enough time, add back in. | The circle should go in the order you choose. The easiest way is as people enter the meeting type their names on a list. When you get to this point you have already gathered names on a list. If you are using Teams you can go by the participants list. Another way to do this online is to have the speaker “pass” their item and name someone else they see on their screen to “pass” to. |
Slide 24-It’s Your Turn Time Goal - 15 minutes for activity, finish with 15 minutes left | If short on time, could discuss the previous questions and ideas for ways to utilize these tools immediately, but skip the creating step For larger groups - use breakout rooms for sharing |