Starters and Plenaries
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• 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.
Learning Objectives
• 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
Starters - Overview
• Can be used to help students compare and contrast
• What/Who would win?– Could compare two pieces of work
– Different techniques for software
Who Would Win…The Link
• 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
Battleships
BankSchool
Doctor/AmbulancePolice
Airports
SupermarketsLibrary
AccountantsGovernment
Telemarketers
Places you find a database
• 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
KeyWord/Topic Bingo
• Don’t want to ruin the students focus on the current task (especially in KS4)
• Run out of time
The Problems/Excuses
The Actual Role Of PlenariesTo check if students have met the learning
objectives/success criteria of the lesson
To help you plan the next lesson’s learning
• 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
Just a Minute
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
• 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
Peer/Self Assessment
• In Word (or on paper/books) write down:
What you have learnedWhere you could use the skills from this lesson in
other subjectsHow you would improve your skills from this lessonWhen you will review your learning from this
lessonWhy you think this learning is important
4W's and a H
• The Starter Generator
• The Plenary Producer
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