1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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| 1. What was the term that Susan Scott used to describe how relationships succeed or fail? | gradually | 2. When describing how her school culture was rebuilt, what were the conversations about more than before? | Now, our conversations are more about instruction and less about each other. | 3. Describe the 5-day challenge. | You have five days to talk to the person; brainstorm or talk the problem with a friend, then go to the person or take the friend along to have the conversation; or drop it and stop talking about it to others. | 4. What did Orting Primary School learn from the 5-day challenge? | Leaders can’t shy away from tough challenges, interpersonal or otherwise; don't handle people’s interpersonal problems for them. | 5. What is required to have conversations focused on student learning? | People need to feel safe, gather their courage, and know some strategies. They also need formal and informal leaders at every level who believe that good relationships are worth fighting for in order to focus on students’ educational and emotional needs. |
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