One of our themes for our escape room is adolescence. After all, we’re a high school, and if we’re doing things right, our approach builds on an understanding of adolescence and how to structure a school such that we capitalize on the great parts of being a teenager and minimize the problems. <\/p>\n
We first did some drawing. Adolescent surrounded by the traits of adolescence, radiating off as lines. Then, with each line, we wrote about how The Workshop School deals with that trait in positive ways and negative ways. <\/p>\n
Example one<\/p>\n
Example two <\/p>\n
What was striking to me about the eventual list, with explanations, was that it was the same list that a group of experts in the field might have come up with: <\/p>\n
Music
\nTired
\nIndependence
\nDoing things just because \u00a0
\nPoor decisions
\nSocial media
\nGrowth \u00a0
\nSneaky \u00a0
\nTrying to find out identity
\nWho do you want to be? \u00a0
\nRisk-taking
\nShort attention span \u00a0
\nThinking about the future
\nStyle \u00a0
\nOverthinking and not thinking (DW: This is brilliant! Why can your mind be spinning and yet when someone asks you a question you’re like huh?)
\nWhat\u2019s life?
\nFinding your purpose
\nDeveloping self-awareness
\nSocial media \u00a0
\nMultitasking
\nEros (life drive) \u00a0
\nNew beginnings
\nRebellious \/defy
\nFinding who you are\/figuring out who you are \u00a0
\nWild
\nTakes risk \u00a0
\nExploring limits <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of our themes for our escape room is adolescence. After all, we’re a high school, and if we’re doing things right, our approach builds on an understanding of adolescence and how to structure a school such that we capitalize on the great parts of being a teenager and minimize the problems. We first did … Continue reading Adolescence<\/span>