Lecture/Seminar/Tutorial
Resources: Nothing! What to do: Mix up your classroom teaching by introducing a Lecture lesson then a seminar? Or just a Lecture lesson? Or a just a seminar session? Or tutorial session? To ensure your students are prepared for higher education? Ensure you deliver the lesson like the conventional university style. Re-live how your […]
Practice Bands
Resources:Rubber bands? Bracelets? What to do:Students to be given a set number of bracelets to wear… these can be colour coded/number of braclets linked to end of year targets and so on…Students should then give in their bracelet once they have successfully PRACTICED their task? This is ideal for a music lesson for example?Students who […]
Passing Mind Map
Resources:Paper/Coloured Pens How It Works:Students each handed a piece of paper- A3/4?They students must be seated in a way that each student can pass their paper to the person next to them. (You, as the teacher can plug a gap by passing the papers if need be.)In the middle of that piece of paper should […]
Revise Write Check
Revise Write Check What is needed: A3 paper Black pen Coloured pen/felt tip Notes (from class or revision) How it works: Fold A3 paper twice. Students prioritise 5-15 points, figures, quotes, and words (whatever you want them to remember) You give then x amount of time to revise (not too long though.) Or you can […]
Drama Dollars
Resources:Drama Dollars- Click HERE How It Works: Students will be given a certain amount of dollars at the start of a practical task and will have to buy: props costumes use of lighting buy access to a particular skill or theatre convention to use in their work etc… Students will therefore have to budget what they spend; […]
Spinning Tops
Spinning Tops A spinning top can add an element of fun and creativity to you lesson, and can be created in advance by you or even easier made by the pupils. Resources: Paper, ready for pupils to cut out the circles Or ready created spinning tops How it works: […]
Learning Zones
Resources: Posters stuck up in each corner of the room? How It Works: When a teacher has set a task and activity has been completed; to check on the understanding of the students, how about you ask them to move to the learning zone that reflects their level of understanding…? One corner- red smiley One corner- […]
Literacy Posters
Resources: Download posters here– Print and place around school? Print into student planners? Get your students to make their own? Download the app= Phoster/Diptic These were created by www.twitter.com/teachertrying
Make me a Star
Resources: Star stickers (cheap in Wilkinsons/poundland/hobby craft etc) A list of what they need to do to achieve the stars How it works: Tell the class that by the end of the lesson there is going to be a star who shall win a prize, I had large chocolate gold coins on display as an […]
Shadowing
Resources:You? Or a Student?How It Works:When asking students to write a short answer for an exam/demonstrate a technique for a practical piece. Why not demonstrate it to the students first fully? Ask them to shadow you… explain this concept of shadowing and how it is used in the workplace for example?You could write out the answer […]