Teacher Escape Room: Staff Development, Team Building, Morale Booster
- Zip
What educators are saying
Description
This Teacher Escape is perfect for team building and staff development. It can be used at any time during the year to take a break from the grind and boost morale whether it be at a staff meeting or a party. Teachers will love the competition, and the clues are related to teaching. Students can do this escape as well to build respect for what their teachers do in the classroom because it focuses on the many roles of teachers, the excuses they hear about homework, the pay scale (which isn't nearly enough!), and more. This escape would be great for Teacher Appreciation Week!
Look no further for meaningful staff development - at the end of this escape are tips and tricks for teachers to make their own escape rooms. It details the process of creating an escape that fits curriculum and provides challenges that make students think. There are also puzzle examples and suggestions to help teachers get started. After trying this escape, teachers can make a clue of their own for some professional development!
The best part is that you don't have to buy locks or boxes to do this escape room! This escape has a picture of the lock teachers are trying to open along with the clues. Then, a sheet is included for participants to write the code to each lock. Of course, the physical locks are more fun, but I definitely understand school funds are limited. This also works if you have only one lock box for the faculty to share or several lock box sets for groups.) If you have a large faculty, I suggest using the Google Form - see below.
❤This activity also comes with access to a Google Form so that staff can put their answers into the form and get immediate feedback if they are correct or incorrect as long as they have a tech device to use. This way, you don't even have to set physical locks! The form is self-checking!YAY!
Materials needed if you are using physical locks (pictures of materials are included in the lesson):
hasp
3 digit lock
4 digit lock
padlock
5 letter alphabet lock
Directional lock
Box with a lockable clasp
This activity includes step-by-step instructions, hint cards, and well-designed clues to engageyour participants, get them to think critically, and show teachers how beneficial escapes are in the classroom. Hopefully, they will start using escapes in their classrooms! Students love escapes!
This activity should last about 45 minutes. If you don't have that much time, you can always leave off one of the clues.
Related Products
• Student Success Escape - Back to School or Any Time
• Black History Month Escape Room / Lockbox
• Comma Escape Room / Lock Box
• Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room / Lock Box
• Parts of Speech Differentiated Escape / Lock Box Bundle
• Parts of Speech Escape Room / Lock Box for High School
• Parts of Speech Escape Room / Lock Box for Middle School
• Plagiarism Escape Room / Lock Box