Yesterday I was teaching (through games, mostly) at a high school in Waianae.
Thanks to that experience, I was also able to learn a lot about US schools and native Hawai'ians' life.
We played a version of the Euro-Bingo game, which I localized for Hawai'i. The resulting Aloha-Bingo proved to be an interesting and successful tool to reach out not only to regular high school students, but also to ones with special learning needs. Since the game was mostly asking questions about Hawai'i, Waianae kids felt empowered since they were able to provide answers in their native language, and to be proud they live on these heavenly islands.
It was funny that by the time I was playing the Aloha Bingo game with a second class, I ran out of proper prizes from Ukraine, so the winners were receiving Swiss franks as prizes.
Game handout @ http://goo.gl/FzKUM
The rules are simple: participants ask each other questions while running around a room (not more than one question per person), and having filled in one line (horizontal, vertical, or 2 diagonal ones), submit their forms shouting “Bingo!” Answers “no” and “don’t know” are not valid. I usually play until there are 1 first, 2 second, and 3 third winners, and announce which lines are already taken as forms are submitted, checked and accepted as winning.
A lot of people are familiar with this game, but still I like to promote it, as it is easily adaptable to any particular educational needs, works well with any age group and with any number of participants, energizes and allows to check learning outcomes (or serves as an introduction to a new topic). One might need to prepare in advance a number of small prizes (such as fruits and candies), after awarding the winners I usually discuss the correct answers.
Mahalo nui loa to Mr. Lanny Busher for letting me play the game with students @ Waianae High.
More photos @ https://plus.google.com/u/0/111989549835072476930/posts/J7fdu5MY8GP
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