Strategy: Inside-Outside Circles
Tool: none required
Basics
Time: 15 minutes
Room Arrangement: standing space for students needed
Materials: none required
Time: 15 minutes
Room Arrangement: standing space for students needed
Materials: none required
Process Directions
1. Have half of the students stand in a circle facing out. 2. Have the other half of the students stand in front of a person that is in the circle (this will form a second circle around the first). 3. Ask students a question, or give them a topic to talk about. 4. Allow the inside person to speak first. The outside person must not say anything while the inside person is speaking. 5. Then, allow the outside person to speak, without the inside person speaking at all. 6. Ask students in the outside circle to move to the right one time, and repeat this process as many times as necessary. |
Example
A prompt might be "Talk about a time that you were a bully to someone else (without using any names), and talk about how it made you feel as a bully." Another prompt may be "Tell your friend a short (30 second) Bible story."
A prompt might be "Talk about a time that you were a bully to someone else (without using any names), and talk about how it made you feel as a bully." Another prompt may be "Tell your friend a short (30 second) Bible story."
Gregory, G., & Kuzmich, L. (2007). Teacher teams that get results: 61 strategies for sustaining and renewing professional learning communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.