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Starters and Plenaries

Starters and Plenaries. Learning Objectives. To be able to identify what makes a good starter To be able to develop successful starters to use in lessons To be able to understand the role of plenaries in lessons

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Starters and Plenaries

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  1. Starters and Plenaries

  2. Learning Objectives • To be able to identify what makes a good starter • To be able to develop successful starters to use in lessons • To be able to understand the role of plenaries in lessons • To be able to identify successful strategies to assess progress made by students in lessons.

  3. What makes a successful starter?

  4. Starters - Overview • Should last no more than 10minutes (5minutes if lesson is less than an hour) • Should do one of the following: • Prepare students for the new skills/techniques • Refresh students on previous learning • Help calm/excite students for your lesson

  5. A Few Examples…The Ones That Worked For Me

  6. Who Would Win? And Why? Idea on your post it note – stick it to the board when done

  7. Who Would Win…The Link • Can be used to help students compare and contrast • What/Who would win? • Could compare two pieces of work • Different techniques for software

  8. Battleships

  9. Battleships • Can be done as a whole class or paired activity • Paired • Provide each player with a grid sheet and let them have a game of the classic board game • Whole Class • Class competes against teacher. If class sinks more ships than teacher could give a prize • Main role is to teach students about cell references for spreadsheets

  10. KeyWord Bingo Draw a grid like below and fill in with… 6different places you would find a database

  11. Places you find a database Supermarkets Library Accountants Government Telemarketers Bank School Doctor/Ambulance Police Airports

  12. KeyWord/Topic Bingo • Could be used to have students put in different key words from a list and you give them the definitions (to check understanding) • Could also potentially be used as a plenary

  13. Plenaries

  14. The Problems/Excuses • Don’t want to ruin the students focus on the current task (especially in KS4) • Run out of time The Actual Role Of Plenaries To check if students have met the learning objectives/success criteria of the lesson To help you plan the next lesson’s learning

  15. Some Examples

  16. Just a Minute • One minute to say as much about how to do something • If you repeat, pause or make a mistake it moves to the next person e.g. How to animate a picture in powerpoint

  17. The Door Queue Its Question Time. I will ask a question and if you get it right, you get to pack up and line up at the door Get it wrong and you will need to sit down

  18. Peer/Self Assessment • Have students assess the work of the student next to them • Get them to suggest two good things and one thing that they would like to improve

  19. 4W's and a H • In Word (or on paper/books) write down: What you have learned Where you could use the skills from this lesson in other subjects How you would improve your skills from this lesson When you will review your learning from this lesson Why you think this learning is important

  20. Dingbats Brainstorm Time For School

  21. Some Final Ideas and Remarks

  22. GoogleDocs/WikiSpaces • The Starter Generator • The Plenary Producer http://pgce2010ict.wikispaces.com/

  23. Final Thoughts • Students enjoyed making their own starters • Keep it simple • Don’t use the same thing over and over (its like death by worksheet) • Find what the group like and rotate it.

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