25 Ways to Ask Your TEENS “How Was School Today?” WITHOUT asking them “How Was School Today?”

#1. Where in the school do you hang out the most? (Like a particular hall, classroom, parking lot, etc.) Where in the school do you never hang out?

#2. What would your school be better with? What would your school be better without?

#3. If you were a teacher what class would you teach? What class would be the worst to teach? Why?

#4. What was the coolest (saddest, funniest, scariest) thing that you saw today.

#5. Tell me one thing that you learned today.

#6. If your day at school today was a movie what movie would it be?

#7. Besides walking to their next classes, what else do people do in the halls in between classes?

#8. Who do you think you could be nicer to?

#9. What is your easiest class? What is your hardest class? OR What class are your learning the most in? What class are you learning the least in?

#10. If they played music in the halls at school what would everyone want them to play over the loudspeaker?

#11. If you could read minds what teachers mind would you read? What classmates mind would you read? Whose mind would you NOT want to read?

#12. If today had a theme song what would it be?

#13. Which class has your favorite group of students in it? Which class has the worst group of students?

#14. What do you think you should do more of at school? What do you think you should do less of?

#15. What are the top 3 (or 5) things that you hear people say in the halls?

#16. What do you think the most important part of school is?

#17. Tell me one question that you had today…even if it wasn’t answered….actually, especially if it wasn’t answered…

#18. What class has the most cute boys/girls in it?

#19. If an alien space ship landed at your school who would you like them to beam aboard and take back to their home planet?

#20. Who did you help today? Who helped you today?

#21. If you could be invisible for the day at school what would you do?

#22. What part of the day do you look forward to? What part of the day do you dread?

#23. What would you change about school lunch?

#24. What classmate is most likely to be arrested, made president, become a millionaire, be in movies, let loose a flock of wild chickens in the library, etc.

#25. If you had to go to only one class every day which class would it be?

#26. Tell me one thing you read at school today.

#27. If your day at school was an emoticon which one would it be?

#28. What do you think your teachers talked about in the faculty room today after school?