Students are encouraged to express their opinions about world views, life expectations and a range of topics such as friendship, love, future profession, freedom, attitudes toward God and toward people. These opinions can be recorded and then compared to the students' pronouncements on the topics at the end of the school year. This strategy allows the teacher -- and the student -- to trace personal development.
Teach social responsibility through role-playing games. For example, imitate the situation of a court trial, having planned the plot of the trial in the classroom and having distributed the roles of the accused, the judge, an advocate, a prosecutor, jury and spectators. Make a film about the trial, which can be watched by all the participants. Afterward, analyze the behavior of each participant in the trial. Conducting other kinds of planned disputes in the classroom is also beneficial.
Your students may one day work in a team as professionals. Such strategies as organized brainstorming helps to solve difficult problems in a team. Conduct a brainstorming session in the classroom dedicated to the solution of a serious problem such as bullying at schools, for instance. A teacher must prescribe special functions to all the participants of the brainstorming session, such as "generators of ideas," "experts" and others and to look after implementation of the rules.
Creating your academic group's profile on the Internet is another possibility for consolidating your students. Suggest that your students participate in such projects as their academic group's living journal or blog or profile as freelance journalists. Planning the activities related to the Internet projects can be carried out in the classroom. For these projects you can use all the materials obtained during the role games, including films or records of the world views monitoring.