Icebreakers
Participants are asked to provide 3 statements about themselves, with one of those statements being an untruth.
What is Two Truths and a Lie?
This topic helps students to learn about the various offices, centers, and individuals who are here to support students.
What is Campus Resources?
What is the Debrief?
These are the three things that students should get.
What is engaged, help, and a degree?
This solution to to a lack of participation allows a student to first self-reflect, then to talk to a peer one on one, before bringing what they discussed to the larger group.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
Students go around the room looking for other students who have experienced one of the things on a sheet of paper.
What is the Human Bingo?
This topic involves helping students create a document that shows previous and current education, work experience, volunteering and other involvement activities.
What is Career/Resume?
This document involves information about your current and past experience and expresses interest in a possible job or experience.
What is a Cover Letter?
(also acceptable is a Letter of Interest, or Personal Statement)
Students who attended lecture the week before Thanksgiving, when it rained, could earn their lecture attendance points back if they put this on the Major Exploration Assignment Part 3.
What is the score to the UCI women's soccer victory against UCLA or the men's basketball victory against USC?
The students are not speaking in discussion, (or I have one student talking too much) and I tried this solution.
What is calling on students by name?
(also acceptable, what is pairing them or putting them in smaller groups)
Students introduce themselves by their name and adding an adjective that describes them. The adjective must start with the same letter as the first letter of their name.
What is Adjective Name Game?
(also acceptable, Adjective Alliteration)
This topic helps students to manage and work through stress, anxiety, as well as develop good practices toward personal wellness.
What is stress management/mental health?
This is the name for the visual word puzzles used in our weekly family competition.
What are Rebus Puzzles?
This is something that doesn't actually matter for most career fields.
What is a Major?
This challenge is a phenomenon when there are chairs that should have students sitting in them, but the chairs are empty.
What is students not attending discussions?
The facilitator passes a roll of toilet paper around the room, telling everyone to “tear off as much as you need.” Once everyone has torn off a sheet or two or ten, the facilitator announces that for each square they’ve taken, they must share something about themselves.
What is Take what you need?
This topic helps students learn about a variety of ways a student can participate in group activities or experiences on campus with other students.
What is getting involved?
We had one guest presentation during the UNI STU 192 course from this office.
What is the Division of Career Pathways?
These are the three campus units that guest lectured during the fall quarter.
What is LARC, the Writing Center, and UROP?
I keep planning lots of things to do for discussion, but no matter how much I have planned, I still seem to have this challenge.
What is finishing discussion too quickly?
Two options are presented and participants much choose which they would prefer to do over the other and explain why.
What is Would You Rather?
What is study skills/habits?
These were the three dinosaurs used in class for one of our competition activities.
T-Rex, Brontosaurus, Triceratops
This individual theorized that individuals have a personality type and will gravitate to work environments that have a similar environmental personality type.
Who is Holland?
The solution to when you have a student in distress.
What is let the coordinators and/or David know?