Teacher Professional Development Bingo Card Generator
Teacher Professional Development bingo cards in seconds: 45 ready-made entries (Turn and talk, Small groups and Sticky notes among them), 24 on each 5x5 card with a free center, up to 30 unique cards free. With 30 players the first line usually comes after about 13 calls, roughly 2 minutes at 10 seconds a call.
| B | I | N | G | O |
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Learning target | Spiral review | Turn and talk | Station rotation | Data-driven |
Social-emotional | Classroom management | Exemplar | PLC meeting | Student engagement |
Small groups | Jigsaw activity | FREE | Restorative circle | Rubric |
Bloom's taxonomy | Do Now warm-up | Breakout groups | Accommodations | Tiered support |
Exit ticket | PD hours logged | Mentor teacher | Feedback loop | Cold calling |
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Edit words (45)
Cards update as you type. Long entries shrink to fit their square; a very long single word is split over two lines with a hyphen (up to 40 characters each). The PDF uses a built-in font: emoji and non-Latin scripts print best with Print cards.
Caller sheet
Every call in a shuffled order. Tick each one as you read it out; the same share link always gives the same order.
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About Teacher Professional Development bingo
Teacher Professional Development Bingo collects the language of in-service days and PD workshops: “Learning target”, “Exit ticket”, “Think-pair-share”, “Backward design”, “Bloom's taxonomy” and the ever-present “Chart paper”. Facilitators can use it to keep a full-day session lively, and teachers can treat each square as a strategy they might try in their own classroom.
On a 5x5 card with a free center, Teacher Professional Development bingo shows 24 of the 45 entries, so each one lands on about 53% of the cards: in a set of 30, Learning target or Exit ticket appears on roughly 16 cards. Card 1 leaves out 21 of them, including Differentiation, Growth mindset and Formative assessment, so no single card can mark everything.
The caller reads the 45 entries from a shuffled caller sheet and players mark them; the first complete line (row, column or diagonal) wins.
All 45 Teacher Professional Development bingo words
Every entry from Accommodations to Wait time, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Small groups if it does not suit your group, or add your own.
- A: Accommodations, Anchor chart
- B: Backward design, Best practices, Bloom's taxonomy, Breakout groups
- C: Chart paper, Classroom management, Cold calling, Continuing credits
- D: Data-driven, Differentiation, Do Now warm-up
- E: Equity, Exemplar, Exit ticket
- F: Feedback loop, Formative assessment
- G: Gallery walk, Growth mindset, Guest presenter
- J: Jigsaw activity
- L: Learning target, Lesson study, Lunch on your own
- M: Mentor teacher
- P: PD hours logged, Peer observation, PLC meeting
- R: Reflection journal, Restorative circle, Rigor, Rubric
- S: Scaffolding, Small groups, Social-emotional, Spiral review, Station rotation, Sticky notes, Student engagement, Success criteria
- T: Think-pair-share, Tiered support, Turn and talk
- W: Wait time
Teacher Professional Development bingo at a glance
| Entries | 45 words and phrases |
|---|---|
| Card | 5x5 card with a free center: 24 of the 45 |
| How it is played | A caller reads the shuffled caller sheet |
| Different cards possible | about 2.34 × 10³⁶ (order matters) |
| Different selections | 3,773,655,750,150 sets of 24 entries |
| Shortest entry | Rigor (5 characters) |
| Longest entry | Formative assessment (20 characters) |
| Multi-word entries | 35 of 45, such as Learning target and Exit ticket |
| Good for | Office parties and adults |
| Category | Office & teams (45 themes) |
How long Teacher Professional Development bingo lasts
150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 13 calls (about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 41 calls (about 7 minutes).
| Players | First line | Line, 80% range | Blackout | Blackout, 80% range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 players | 16 calls | 12-21 | 42 calls | 40-43 |
| 30 players | 13 calls | 9-16 | 41 calls | 39-42 |
| 60 players | 11 calls | 8-15 | 40 calls | 38-42 |
| 1 card (exact average) | - | - | 44.2 calls | of 45 |
How to host Teacher Professional Development bingo
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Print the Teacher Professional Development cards
Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Learning target, Spiral review, Turn and talk, Station rotation and Data-driven.
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Print the caller sheet
All 45 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with Anchor chart, Growth mindset, Student engagement, Rigor and Jigsaw activity; tick each one as you read it out.
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Facilitators can model the strategies on the card during the session, so “Gallery walk” and “Turn and talk” are experienced, not just named.
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After the game, ask each table to pick one marked square, such as “Station rotation”, and plan how they would use it next week.
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Use a 4x4 card for a half-day workshop; a full in-service day suits 5x5, with time for “Peer observation” and “Reflection journal” squares.
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Call until someone shouts bingo
With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 13 (Continuing credits in this set's order) and a blackout near call 41; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.
Teacher Professional Development bingo variations
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Teacher Professional Development variation
Strategy swap: when a teacher marks a square, they share a thirty-second example of using it with students, and a full row earns the first coffee refill or an early lunch.
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Blackout round
Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Learning target to Cold calling; on average one card fills after 44.2 of the 45 calls (98% of the deck).
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Quick 4x4 round
A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 45 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 43.3 calls instead of 44.2.
First 15 calls of this Teacher Professional Development set
Seed "teacher-professional-development" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 23 of the first 30 completes row 3 (Jigsaw activity, Exit ticket, Student engagement and Restorative circle) on call 11, and card 25 is the first full card on call 39.
| Call | Entry | Cards marked (of 30) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchor chart | 17 of 30 |
| 2 | Growth mindset | 22 of 30 |
| 3 | Student engagement | 22 of 30 |
| 4 | Rigor | 16 of 30 |
| 5 | Jigsaw activity | 12 of 30 |
| 6 | Sticky notes | 10 of 30 |
| 7 | Accommodations | 20 of 30 |
| 8 | Feedback loop | 21 of 30 |
| 9 | Backward design | 13 of 30 |
| 10 | Restorative circle | 19 of 30 |
| 11 | Exit ticket | 17 of 30 |
| 12 | Chart paper | 20 of 30 |
| 13 | Continuing credits | 17 of 30 |
| 14 | Success criteria | 10 of 30 |
| 15 | Station rotation | 21 of 30 |
Themes like Teacher Professional Development bingo
Ranked by category, occasion and audience; none of them repeats an entry from this list, so pasting two into the Edit words box gives a longer game.
Frequently asked questions
How many words are on the Teacher Professional Development bingo list?
45, from Accommodations to Wait time. A 5x5 card with a free center uses 24 of them, so each card leaves out 21. The shortest entry is Rigor (5 characters) and the longest is Formative assessment (20).
Are all Teacher Professional Development bingo cards the same?
No. Card 1 and card 2 of this set share 16 of their 24 squares, and every card is checked so none of the 30 in a free set repeats. About 2.34 × 10³⁶ different arrangements are possible from the 45 entries (3,773,655,750,150 different selections of 24).
How many Teacher Professional Development bingo cards per person?
One card each is standard. In 150 simulated games of this list, 30 players on one card each got a first line after a median 13 calls; with two cards each (60 in play) it came after 11, and 10 single cards took 16. Two cards each suit a small group that wants a quicker game. A free set of 30 covers 15 players on two cards each.
How long does Teacher Professional Development bingo take?
A Teacher Professional Development game with 30 players usually reaches its first line after 13 calls (9-16 in 80% of simulated games), about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds. A blackout takes about 41; with 10 players the first line needs about 16.
Can I print Teacher Professional Development bingo cards for free?
Yes. The generator above makes up to 30 cards (5x5 cards with a free center) from the 45 entries; Print cards sends them to your printer and Download PDF saves one card per page, so 30 cards take 30 pages plus the caller sheet. It all runs in your browser with no sign-up.
How do I make my own Teacher Professional Development bingo cards?
Open Edit words in the generator above: it already holds the 45 entries, one per line. Replace Sticky notes with something from your own group, add inside jokes or names, and the sample card redraws at once. 5x5 cards need 24 entries or more.
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