At the end of the lesson allow ten minutes and ask students to write down five things they have learned during the lesson that they didn’t know before. They might write these onto mini whiteboards to avoid anyone loafing. Simple but effective. Go round the class and each student must contribute one thing they have learned; try to go round the whole class without any repetition. Keep them on their toes by asking random students to explain the thing they have learned to the whole class.
Tag: mini whiteboard
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Five things I have learned…
Tags: five things, mini whiteboard
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Weakest Link
Prepare a bank of 20 quick fire questions based upon the content of the previous lesson. Provide each student with a mini whiteboard/marker pen/eraser. Students all stand up and write their answers to the questions on their board secretly and then all hold them up at the same time when you say so. Those with an incorrect answer must sit down and are out of the running. The winner is the last person standing. The competition element should stop them cheating! You might want to have some harder questions for the last few standing.