Lesson 2: Contracting

Essential questions:

How do we create safe space in the classroom to tell and reflect?

Lesson overview:

In this lesson, you and your learners will continue to explore the idea of ‘safe spaces’. Working collaboratively, you will explore the idea of a class contract The lesson assists learners to understand the differences between formal and informal language. The use of informal language is used in group discussion. In contrast, formal language is used in a contract.

Keywords:

• Public and private
• Contracting

Materials (where relevant, these are also included in the lesson components below): 

• Slips of paper or different coloured post-its
• Butcher paper or A3 paper
• Markers, pens and pencils
• 'Contracting' teacher training video
• 'Formal vs informal language' handout