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How To Introduce Yourself To Your Students
How To Introduce Yourself To Your Students
way into her classroom on the first day with Gloria Gaynor blasting from the
speakers. Elaborate, but memorable (and if you decide to go that route, please send
us a video so we can post it on our Facebook page for all to see). Of course, there are
plenty of creative ways to introduce yourself to students that don’t involve quite so
much glitter. Here, teachers from the WeAreTeachers HELPLINE on
Facebook share their favorite ways to help their kids get to know them better.
1. Make a photo book to introduce yourself.
Photo: The_Techie_Teacher/Instagram
Don’t wait for the first day—give your kids an idea of what to expect over the
summer instead. “I took a picture of me playing fetch with my trusty golden retriever
and sent it to each of my new students over the summer,” James C. shares. “On the
back, I wrote a short note introducing myself and telling them how excited I was to
have them in my class.”
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If you want to make the quiz less of a guessing game, give them an overview of
yourself first. Lisa T. does a slideshow about herself on the first day, and then
follows up the second day with a Kahoot quiz to see how much they remember.
Emily F. lets her previous year’s class help. “At the end of the year I have my
students make a brochure for next year’s students. If the kids read it, they get a
lot of answers to my quiz questions right.”
9. Let them piece it together.
“I know my students think of me as a bit of a geek (hey, what can I say, I’m a math
teacher!) so I totally geek out for the first day of school,” admits Greg S. “I wear a
pi t-shirt and thick glasses and really play up the geeky math teacher thing.” Want
to go all out? Try these teacher dresses that make you look just like
Ms. Frizzle!
12. Tell two truths and a lie.
This is another classic icebreaker that takes no prep time at all. “I throw out two
truths and one lie about myself and have them guess which one isn’t true,”
explains Allison H. “Then I have the students do the same thing. We have all sorts
of fun getting to know each other.”