Need advice for a small class

amother

Wed, Aug 21 2024, 2:47 am

I have a small group of students that I pull out for a language-subject in school.

I'd teaching the same group like last year.
I'd prefer to start the year w/ an intersting lesson, instead of " just open up your workbooks, and let's continue where we left off" Rolling Eyes

It's a double lesson, so I'm looking for advice on how to plan the first lessons...

I'm open to any advice or previous positive experiences...

Wed, Aug 21 2024, 6:40 am

Routine routine routine.
In my school, every single lesson is supposed to start with 3 revision questions from last lesson, last week, last term or something like that.
You could have pile of mini games like bingo, a random picture to connect to something we learnt last time, a long vocabulary word on the board how many words can you make using those letters, a random number how many things can you think of connecting to that word.
I teach kodesh so I'll often ask them to find 3 words with a prefix or suffix meaning ... or 3 words which have a shoresh of ...
A colleague used to show a meaningful minute clip at the beginning of every lesson (incentive to get there on time!) And the girls had a special place in their Notebooks to jot down one sentence of what they learnt each time. (They also had a reward once they had a certain number of lessons written down).
You could play a song each lesson and ask them to connect to what you've learnt.

Oh and after writing all that I've just reread your question 🤣🤣🤣

For the first lessons of a year...really depends what Subject it is.
When I taught maths, I gave them maths problems connected to my holiday and then asked them to create their own. For English they could write a poem about their holiday. For kodesh I'd start with a lesson on Elul.