posted July 30, 2013
After a long summer, all Inter teachers were eager to return to school and start another year – and what would be better than starting off with a big laugh? On the first day of their return, all teachers gathered in the cafeteria and for an hour they were engaged in ice breaking and team building activities.
A favorite was the “Portrait Game,” where teachers had to face each other in two circles. The person in the outside circlehad to start drawing a portrait of their partner in the inside circle. After five seconds, everyone in the outside circle had to move one place and continue drawing the portrait of the person that was not in front of them. In the end, everyone got a portrait of their own that was created by numerous colleagues.
Since many new teachers came to Inter this year, we also did some other team building exercises to make them feel welcome to our group. We have an extremely pleasant group and it was not hard for the new staff members to integrate quickly into the group!
The hour of playing and laughing together helped all teachers to then go back to preparing for their students with a smile on their face and a lot of motivation for making this upcoming school year 2013/2014 a year full of challenging learning opportunities and lots of fun.
