Secondary Starters and Plenaries Ready-to-use activities for teaching any subject
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Kate Brown currently works in a charity that promotes learning about global challenges. She has taught in schools in the UK and abroad and is a consultant on educational resources."A fun and easy to use book which I can easily recommend to my students on taught and 'independent' courses, postgraduate and undergraduate... As a lecturer I have on my 'to do' list a need to develop further the range of plenaries I use and I need to look no further!" The Higher Education Academy 27 July 2009
"It's full of jolly games and gimmicks for teachers who want to stay in work." Susan Elkin, SecEd (The Voice for Secondary Education), September 2009.
‘An excellent toolkit for the busy professional' Learning and Teaching Update
Starters and plenaries are now an essential part of all lessons and this highly practical, bestselling book provides busy secondary teachers with 50 creative activities to use in the classroom. The tasks will help ensure the first five minutes of any lesson are a time for motivation, energy and forward thinking and will help students to reflect on, and embed their learning at the end.
From game show inspired quizzes to bingo and dominoes, Kate Brown’s wealth of original ideas have been tried and tested by secondary teachers and can be adapted to use in any subject. Concise explanations and cross-curricular examples make this book an accessible and time saving resource for all secondary teachers looking to inject some new life and enthusiasm into their lessons.
Contents:
About this book
In your own words (or pictures)
Everything you know
List three things
Summarize
Visually represent
Annotate
Mnemonics
What do you say to that?
Questioning
Questions...with a twist
Questioning: a team sport
True or false
What would you ask me?
Peer questioning
If this is the answer, what was the question?
Any (other) questions?
Key words
Write your own dictionary definition
Match the key word with its definition
Key word pelmanism
Key word anagrams
Key word acronyms
Crosswords
Word searches
Make a sentence with this word
What key word am I?
Game show
Bingo
Just a minute
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Pictionary
Rapidough
Blockbusters
Taboo
Mallett's Mallet
Dominoes
Figure it out
Mystery object
Sequence it
Cloze this
What happens next?
Odd word out
Ranking
Spot the difference
Sort these
Finish this sentence
Analogies
Physical
Stand on the line
Act this out
Show me
Reflect on your learning
Traffic lights
Set a target
Self or peer mark
Top tips
Link the learning