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Questions to make students better.


Building Community:

  1. What makes you feel like you are an important part of our classroom community? The school community? The community where you live?
  2. If you could change one or two things about your [classroom, school, neighbourhood, etc] community, what would they be? Are there any actions you can take to help nurture the change you’d like to see? 
  3. Where is your favourite place to spend time at school and why? After school? 
  4. What do you like about the neighbourhood in which you live? How do these things you like make you feel? 
  5. What do you like about the society we live in? What don’t you like? What message would you like to share with our society about building community? 

Checking Involvement

  1. What was your favorite moment of the day? Your least? 
  2. What felt fun, easy, or natural for you today? What felt weird, scary, or challenging? 
  3. What are you looking forward to tomorrow? [This weekend? Next week? This summer? Etc.] 
  4. If you were an animal [insect, food, plant, colour, season, type of weather, city, etc], what would you be today and why? 
  5. What are you the most excited to learn about right now? What are you least excited to learn about right now? 

Sharing Our Stories 

  1. When have you felt like you belonged to a group or team? When have you felt that you didn’t? 
  2. When have you felt sad [angry, disappointed, frustrated, scared, alone, embarrassed, etc] and how did you deal with it? 
  3. When have you overcome an obstacle or challenge and how did you feel during and after? 
  4. When have you felt confident [connected, powerful, positive, hopeful, safe, supported, etc] and why? 
  5. When have you caused harm to another person and what did you do to repair the relationship? 

Learning About Relationships 

  1. Who makes you feel safe [supported, brave, loved, etc] and why? 
  2. What are one or two of the most important qualities in your friendships? How do you demonstrate these qualities to your friends? 
  3. What does the phrase ‘healthy relationship’ mean to you? What about ‘unhealthy relationships’? 
  4. When have you felt challenged by a relationship? What made the relationship feel challenging? Did anything help you navigate these challenges? 
  5. Have you ever found it hard to tell someone “no” when they have asked you to do something? Have you ever said “yes” when you really wanted to say “no”, and how did you feel afterward? Have you ever tried to get someone who has said “no” to say “yes”? 

Learning About Values

  1. What makes you feel safe, supported, and empowered in friendships? At school? In your community? In society? How do you share these qualities with others? 
  2. Do you think it’s ever okay to lie [cheat, steal, etc.]? Why or why not? Has anyone ever lied to you? How did that make you feel?  
  3. What are some rights you think everyone--including you--deserves? What might the world look like if everyone had these rights? 
  4. Have you ever done something to help someone else when you thought no one was watching? How did this experience make you feel? 
  5. What do the words ‘justice’ and ‘injustice’ mean to you? How do you think we can proactively create a more just classroom, community, and world?

Encouraging Dreams

  1. If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would you go, what would you bring, and who would you want to come with you? What would you like to experience here? 
  2. If your life was a movie and you were a director, what would you like to make happen in the next scene? 
  3. If you could speak another language [play an instrument, master a craft, etc], what would it be and why? What would do with your new skillset?
  4. If you could make a difference in the world, what would it be? Who would you like to support and uplift? How would you like them to feel? 
  5. If you could grow up to be any kind of person, who would you be? What qualities would you have? Profession? Lifestyle? Relationships? Family?

Taking Responsibility 

  1. Have you ever said you were going to do something and then didn’t? How did it make you feel? Did this behavior impact another person, with or without them knowing it? 
  2. Have you ever used your words or actions to harm or exclude another? How do you think that behavior made them feel? Is there anything you could do or say differently next time? 
  3. What are some reasons why society treats some people as having more value, and some people as having less value? What do you think you can do to see and treat all people as equally valuable? 
  4. What thoughts, words, or behaviors would you like to improve and why? How might these changes improve your daily life? The lives of others?
  5. Has anyone ever taken responsibility for hurting you by apologizing or changing their behaviors? How did their effort to repair broken trust with you make you feel? 

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