How To Connect With Your Class After the Holidays

The winter break is always a super-lengthy period for it is full of celebrations and family time, so automatically the thought of going back to school can be daunting for students as well as the teachers. In today’s post, Saracens Recruitment – the renowned education staffing solutions in London – is sharing the tips on how to glide back into the classroom like a pro after a long break.

But still, the impact is much greater when you return from a longer break like Christmas or Spring Break.

1. WARMING UP THE CROWD – As soon as you enter the class, all you could see is your students are buzzing around the room chatting amongst themselves, not looking to take their seats anytime soon. The students are simply not with you when they make the transition from vacation back to school, and honestly, neither did you. In such a situation instead of scolding or asking them to open their books, begin with a very light warm up or brain teaser, maybe a drawing competition or interesting game. There are several things that help as teachers and students return from a break. Warming up your pupils is just one.

2. SHARE THE HOLIDAY EXPERIENCES – To get the brain juices flowing and students engaged, give your class an opportunity to share their holiday experience. Ask the students to either write or draw about how they spent their holiday break. By getting students to share their personal accounts, it gets them to speak from experience rather than imagination. It also makes the activity more inclusive for those who aren’t as creatively inclined. After students have penned down their experiences on paper, you can get them to either share it with the class or break into small groups and have them read their partner’s page. This can become a multi-exercise activity. 

3. RESTABLISHING RULES & PROCEDURES – The experts at Saracens Recruitment – the renowned education staffing solutions in London – suggests that after a long holiday break, they’ve had a lot of freedom, and rules and procedures need to be re-established. If you can do it in a relatable way, students are more likely to fall back into the swing of things. Getting back into a routine straight away is the most effective way of breaking the lazy habits students may have picked up over the break. In fact, if things have not been going particularly well in your classroom, this is a great time to establish a new precedent.

4. BEGINNING A NEW TEACHER HABIT – After a holiday break, you should begin a new teacher habit. This can include a makeup list of the to-do things, warmly greeting every student at the door, reach out to three parents every day, if you are in stress seek help from a colleague or some senior teacher, always eat healthy for it helps your whole body and especially your very hard working brain, and lastly, do not remain absent on a Monday.

Now sit and think about the specific students who need such great intervention in their lives. Think about those students who come to you for the sixth period after being in all of those other classes all day long and how you can break it up for them.

Teachers are the expert in managing their classroom and students. Only they themselves can sit down and quietly figure out what they need and what their students need. It solely depends upon the teachers on how to make their post-holiday a big win for themselves and obviously the pupils. For further assistance and help, feel free to get in touch with our experts at Saracens Recruitment, one of the leading education staffing solutions in London.