1. How have you used starter activities in the past?
To fill in a bit of time when the learners are drifting in.
To revise learning from the last session.
As a start to a topic, to get an idea of what the learners know already.
To introduce a new topic or stimulate interest in a subject
All learners like doing starter activities.
If your learners are not fully on board with these activities, you should ...
continue regardless, after all you know best.
leave them out and launch straight into the main part of the lesson.
share the aims for the activity and get the learners to reflect on how useful they have been.
Starter and activities work best when they have a clear , the understand their usefulness and something is done with the gleaned.