50 Quick Ways to Start Your Lesson with a Bang: Volume 21 (Quick 50 Teaching Series) - Softcover

Gershon, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544671865 ISBN 13: 9781544671864

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

50 Quick Ways to Start Your Lessons With A Bang!’ gives you a whole host of strategies, activities and techniques you can use to engage, excite and motivate your students. The ideas are practical, varied and ready for use across the curriculum and the Key Stages.Getting lessons off to a good start is vital. If we can get students on board and raring to go from the minute they walk through the door then good things will follow. Starting your lesson with a bang means doing something different. Something unexpected which is going to surprise students and make them remember your lesson for a long time to come.This book is all about the different strategies, activities and techniques you can use to make the beginning of your lessons memorable, exciting and engaging. The aim is to get students motivated and focussed on learning from the moment they enter your room. And there is a big emphasis on having fun and enjoying learning as well.The fifty entries cover a wide range of ideas. Many look at how introducing something novel, or changing the familiar routine, can be a great way to energise students and play on their natural curiosity. Variety, after all, is the spice of life. Every idea is illustrated through two different examples, showing you exactly how to put it into practice. There’s an unusual, novel selection of lesson starts waiting to be explored. So dip in and discover 50 quick ways you can start any lesson with a bang!

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About the Author

Mike Gershon is an expert educationalist whose knowledge of teaching and learning extends across the age ranges and the curriculum. His online teaching tools have been viewed and downloaded more than 3.5 million times by teachers in over 180 countries and territories. They include the now famous Starter Generator, Plenary Producer and AFL Toolkit. He is also the author of more than 30 books on teaching and learning, including bestsellers covering categories such as outstanding teaching, assessment for learning, differentiation, questioning, growth mindsets and Bloom’s Taxonomy. He has also written more than 50 guides looking at different areas of classroom practice. All of Mike’s work is closely focused on the practicalities of pedagogy; teachers across the world return to his work because of its relevance to the classroom and the immediacy with which the ideas can be implemented. Find out more at www.mikegershon.com and www.gershongrowthmindsets.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544671865
• ISBN 13: 9781544671864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 75