How often do proffesors do ice breaker activities?

Question

community college. math and english. average age of ppl is 34, and i don't think that proffessors really care for much other than the sillybi. 35 ppl in the classes, 1h40m classes. do you think they'll do those lame exercises?

thanks guys!

Answer 1

I teach college and we started class today.  I had students introduce themselves, give their major, semester in school, why they are taking the class.  My class is a language class, so getting to know each other is helpful, as they will be doing dialogs and performances together.  It's also good to know other people in your class so you can contact them if you missed an assignment or want to do HW together.  For me, it gives me a chance to know my students as individuals and not numbers.  It can be easy to forget that we work with people, since we have so many statistics to do on each student.  As a result, i think the students are more willing to approach the instructor if they are struggling or have a question.

Answer 2

Not usually, but some want students to get comfortable with one another so that they will feel better about participating in class.