Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Back to community building. Suggestions appreciated!

I am working on creating a new lesson plan for tomorrow, as I need to revisit the whole community building thing in my classroom. I find that doing specific community building activities seems contrived or awkward, but I need to do these things in order to have the success in the classroom that I desire. It seems, that in these dark days of November, that everyone (including me) is exhausted, tired of the rain and cranky. I have the Kagan Teambuilding Cube ready to go for tomorrow and hope that we can heal some of these hard feelings and conflicts that have arisen. Along with these Teambuilding questions, I am thinking of looking at our classroom etiquette and appreciation of others. Any thoughts on how to rebuild community that was tenuous at best, but had glimmers of hope a few weeks ago?