Escape Room Activity for Teachers and School Staff - Breakout Team Building
Escape Room Activity for Teachers and School Staff - Breakout Team Building: Liven up your staff meeting or back to school or end of the year staff meeting or gathering with this fun teacher escape room activity. Teachers or school staff members will circulate to different stations to complete challenges, puzzles, or games that relate to teaching. This is a great team-building activity for teachers and encourages teamwork and cooperation.
How The Teacher Escape Room Activity Works:
Teachers work in small groups and move around to six different stations to complete puzzles and activities related to teaching. The goal of the escape room is to complete the task at each station successfully and retrieve a variety of mystery code words.
- Famous Educators Multiple-Choice: In the first station, staff members work together to answer multiple-choice questions about teachers or educators featured in movies or television. Their responses will reveal a mystery code word which they insert into their response booklet.
- Teacher Trivia Cipher Wheel: In the second station, staff members select a correct answer to trivia questions related to teaching and educational philosophies, methodologies, and practices. Using numbers and letters on a cipher wheel, the group will reveal a mystery code word.
- Pedagogical Puzzle: In the third station, staff members assemble a puzzle to reveal a quote about education and discuss the quote for a specific amount of time.
- Master Matcher: In the fourth station, staff members match up teaching/educational terms to their proper definitions to reveal a mystery code word.
- Classroom Cryptoquote: In the fifth station, staff members solve a cryptogram to reveal a quote about teaching and discuss the quote for a specific amount of time.
- Encrypted Message: The final station has students decode an encrypted message based on hidden symbols they have to find throughout the game to reveal a quote!
Included in The Teacher Escape Room Activity:
➡️ Teacher Instructions: These detailed teacher setup and activity instructions will help you facilitate the teacher escape room. With step-by-step instructions, you'll feel totally confident implementing this breakout.
➡️ Station Signs: Use these signs at each of the six stations, so teachers can easily keep track of which ones they have completed.
➡️ Teacher Instruction Cards: Each of the six tasks comes with an instruction card, so teachers know what to do to solve each task.
➡️ Escape Room Station Materials: Included are all the materials you need to set up each station, including envelope templates, cards, multiple-choice assignment, puzzle pieces, cipher wheel, encryption assignment etc.)
➡️ Teacher Escape Room Answer Booklet: Teachers will use this booklet to record each of the mystery words they find at each station. An answer key is provided.
➡️ Winning and Losing Speech Bubble Props: Teachers can take a funny photo after the escape room with these funny sayings on speech bubbles. They include funny sayings like "You can call me Einstein" for the winners or "We wanted to lose. It builds character" for teams that don't win (and many more).
What Teachers Are Saying About This Teacher Escape Room Activity:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We used this as a "welcome back" during one of our PD days. We had a lot of fun and this was a great review on pedagogy. Even for our veteran teachers it was a great refresher!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I used this for a PD with teachers in my building to talk about engagement. It was super fun and the teachers were into it, which is hard to do on a PD day! Thank you!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We used this with our staff as a team-building activity. Staff members had a blast and were very competitive! Thank you so much for such a great resource!
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