Or if you don’t like that, try this one.

Some people feel uncomfortable talking about themselves. Maybe you could pair them up, have them get info about each other, then have each introduce the other to the class.

1. have everyone take out a piece of paper and write something about themselves that no one else in the room knows.

2. collect them. warn everyone to keep it a secret.

3. after school type them up on a sheet of paper and make enough copies for each student.

4. pass out the pages the next day and have students wander the class asking “were you bitten by a shark?”

there is an alternate way of doing this in one day:

Do number 1 and 2 from above, then start here:

–rip the writing off of the top of the paper and put them all in a jar [or something that will hold them].

–have each person take one paper out–then everyone walks around the classroom looking for the person their sentence is describing

It was fun because every piece of information has a good story behind it. You can spend the next few days or even weeks learning something new about a different student each day. It surprised me how much my students [and I] looked forward to learning something new about a classmate.

No one likes to get up and say who they are and where they are from and I find it puts the participants ill at ease.

You have to remember that teaching to adults is VERY different than teaching to children. Adults bring to the table more experience and generally a willingness to learn.