Closing activities for groups

Looking for meaningful ways to end group counseling? Check out these 5 group counseling closing rituals to use with your students! Group counseling activities for the last session of group. Group counseling lesson plans for elementary school counseling and middle school counseling last session of group. -Counselor Keri

I, like many others, was forced to move a face-to-face college class to virtual synchronous meetings in Zoom. This term I am teaching a group dynamics course. One of my goals is to have my students…

7 Classroom Community Building Activities 7 easy community building activities for the classroom. Get students feeling connected and engaged with closing circles, compliments, community service, lunch bunch and more.

One thing that I never did much of until this year was focus on building a strong classroom community. I felt like I had good relationships with my students, but I realized I wasn’t very good at fostering my students’ relationships with their peers. How important that is! If students aren’t valuing and respecting each other, then it can be really hard to get much accomplished during the day. So this year, after learning more about Responsive Classroom and building classroom community, I…

Activities have the power to engage mental health clients in groups where they learn knowledge and skills to cope with the challenges they face. Use these activities to make your groups fun.

Need ideas for circle time? Here are 37 fun games to play with your primary-school students. Some can even be played with preschoolers. Be warned—the laughter will be contagious!

Starting counseling sessions with a check-in is something I’ve been doing since my internship in 2011. For a long time, I used Kimochis (you know those little stuffie feelings characters?). I then started using feelings posters, sometimes my feelings/problems size scale, and then for individual sessions I started using this check-in folder almost every time. […]

Pass the Clap - A Fun Game for all ages! This is a great game for team building. with many benefits in the classroom, and plenty of giggles, too!

Closing Circle in the classroom The end of the day used to be chaotic for my students and me. I would be teaching, and suddenly the bell would ring. We would rush to pack up all our belongings. Students would forget to stack their chairs, leave homework on top of their desk, and leave the […]

A get-to-know-you game where players are basically tricked into giving away a certain number of facts about themselves.