Today I got some more feedback on my workshop plan from a secondary school teacher, some really great points to remember and some exercises I might tinker with further now I have read this:
Great to have lots of good interactive activities to do.
a couple of bits of advice...
- ensure you explain the tasks very clearly and maybe do a demonstration
- the starter will prob go on for 10 minutes - esp if there is like 30 students in the class
- with the warm up - I think that's a great idea, make sure when you want to get the kids attention back you have a clear signal.
- always make sure everyone is quite when you are talking, don't talk over them - get them to be quite for you.
- the who am I discussion will prob go on a bit longer - I think when kids are expressing their views you don't want to stop them especially when they really get in to it and come up with good ideas
All in all you have lots of activities, be careful not to over exert yourself and also when you ask them questions, get them to think for a minute without writing anything then pick up their pen - gets them using their brain.
Watch out for the loud kids who don't want to shut up - if this is for kids u have never met - try to get sticky name labels so you can call their names. pick different students to get their points of view.
Give them an aim of the lesson, whats it for? Always go back to it at the end of the lesson.
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