Icebreakers For SSW Groups
“What Are Icebreakers?”
Ice Breakers are a great tool for social workers to use when developing rapport with students. These activities can be used in either individual sessions or for groups. Ice Breakers are used in a variety of settings and can be changed to fit the context they’re being used in. Using these activities during the pre-affiliation stages of therapy, there’s more of a likelihood that students will loosen up, build rapport, and show up more authentically in sessions.
Establishing Group Norms And Why We Need Icebreakers
When conducting groups with school clients, certain norms need to be followed. Students’ school experience can have a big impact on their daily lives. Students not only need to feel safe at school, but should also feel comfortable, and that they are part of a supportive environment. Children’s ability to establish and maintain friendships will be necessary throughout their lives. Promoting Social-Emotional Development: Positive Relationships Persistent positive school climate has been linked to positive student development, learning, academic achievement, effective risk prevention and health promotion, high graduation rates, low dropout rates, and teacher retention. School Climate & Culture A positive school climate should be a priority, because learning in a safe, engaged, and responsive environment sets the foundation for positive academic, social, and emotional success.
Ice Breakers Help Us With Our Evaluations By Administration
Lastly, the Danielson Model is regularly used to evaluate school social workers within the state of Illinois. Being able to build a rapport with students is a crucial part of the role to meet the needs of the student population. Students need to feel safe and comfortable in order to further develop their emotional intelligence within a group setting. Administrators evaluate school social workers based on components listed in 2a. (Creating an environment of respect and rapport). In addition to using the Danielson Model, school social workers need to be able to link their objectives to the Social and Emotional Learning standards by the state of Illinois and/or the Collaborative Social and Emotional Learning competencies.
In this short webinar we share our favorite icebreakers and how to set them up within a group setting. In order to do these activities with a purpose, they are linked to the importance of SEL work we’re often evaluated on by administrators.
We hope you enjoyed seeing the ice breakers we like to use; what are some of your favorites? If you want to share your work, head on over to SSWNetwork, the 100% free sister social media platform and share your stuff with the 2,500 school clinicians that are on the network now.
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