1. How can students take a more active role at the start of your lessons?
Student-led Starters
How can students take a more active role at the start of your lessons?

2. Starter: Round Robin
Why do lessons need a starter? What purpose do they serve? What difference do they make to teaching and learning?
Connect (recap) the learning
Assess the ‘starting point’ in learning
Motivate/engage students
Classroom climate
Behaviour management

3. Discussion: How might you plan for this?
Idea One: Starter Stars
Give students ownership over the start of a lesson. Ask them to recap the learning from the previous lesson or revise a topic from some time ago.
Share the concept/purpose of a ‘starter’.
Provide clear success criteria e.g. timing.
Use pairs or do student-teacher pair to reduce anxiety or to differentiate.
Allow time for planning – one lesson for all pupils to plan or an extended homework task?
Provide immediate feedback (positive)
Could ask sixth form students in your subject to lead starters – choose GCSE topics that they might need to review at AS or A2.
Discussion: How might you plan for this?

4. Used with able Y11 class.

5. Idea Two: Relevant or Irrelevant?
Encourage students to ‘prepare for learning’ by inviting them to select their own resource for use in a starter activity.
This will enable them to lead and participate in a discussion without any input from the teacher.

6. Starter Instructions: Share your resource with a partner.
Explain why you believe it to be relevant to a lesson on ‘The implications of shifting power’.
Starter therefore also forms the review of the lesson.
Review: Evaluate the relevance of your resource. Rate it from 1-10.

7. Review: Exit Ticket
Take a post-it note. List one student-led starter idea for use in one of your lessons.