Back to school

Lesson for the first time you ever meet any class in any subject.

Complete lesson, ready to use, you only need to spend 2 minutes personalising the ‘who am I’ PPT slide provided.

All Key Stages: KS2 to KS5.

ALL subjects: yes, really, all subjects and you can use it with your tutor group too !

12 new classes this week ? Easy, no effort, no pressure, no stress, great lesson, give this lesson 12 times this week ! Best £5 you’ll spend this year !

The first lesson with a new class is the most important lesson you will ever teach. You need to give this lesson to each of your new classes. Assuming you have 12 classes this year and your teaching career lasts 20 years that is a lot of classes, and all so easy! I’ve lost count of the number of times I have delivered this lesson, this truly critical lesson. It has been used and improved a huge number of times over many years.

During the lesson you will accomplish all these important things:

• Sort out the seating plan during the lesson.
• Learn names.
• Introduce yourself to the students.
• Get to know each student.
• Set and agree class rules.
• Rewards - find out which rewards they care enough about to try and get.
• Set expectations of behaviour and ensure students recognise your authority as the teacher.
• Help learners understand why work ethic is so important.
• Learn about individual learners needs.
• Learn about their individual likes (helps build relationships)
• Learn about their individual dislikes (helps build relationships)
• Start to build those all important relationships.
• Start to coach / motivate the students about learning.

Happy teaching !
Yours,
Barclayfox

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