Getting to Know Your Learning Partner

When beginning to work closely with a colleague, it can take time to feel comfortable. Here are some ice-breaker activities to help create an effective partnership. During the first session of working together, they can be a good way of getting to know each other.

Choose at least one activity to complete with your learning partner.

10 Things in Common

Identify ten things you have in common with your new learning partner. You can’t choose easy answers such as ‘we both have hands!’ This activity enables you to have direct conversations and find some similarities (and differences) between you both.

Fun and Funny Questions

Choose one question (or think of your own) to get the conversation going. They are designed to encourage you to chat in depth.

• If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be?
• If you woke up tomorrow as an animal, what animal would you choose to be and why?
• Are you sunrise, daylight, twilight, or night? Please share why you picked your time of day.
• If you could choose to stay one age forever, what age would you choose and why?

Two Truths and a Lie

Declare two true facts about yourselves and then make something else up: the lie! Your partner has to decide which one is the lie by asking lots of questions to try and work out the truth!