Mike Gershon

50 Quick Ways to Start Your Lesson with a Bang Mike Gershon

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!