The Teaching Space

Episode 69 of The Teaching Space Podcast explores different ways to start your teaching sessions. Introduction We’re going back to teaching basics today and focussing on starter activities. For the benefit of any new teachers or trainers listening, a starter activity is a short activity at the start of the session which engages your learners as soon as they arrive. It sets the tone of the session. Why are Starter Activities a Good Idea? One of the main benefits of using a starter activity is that done well, it can ensure learners arrive in your training room and settle into work-mode quicky and easily. This applies to learners of all ages, incidentally! It is also a good way to get learners excited about what is about to happen in the session to come. You can really “hook” learners in with a good starter activity. Starters can also be used to recap on what you covered in the last session. But Do They Work? In drafting the outline for this show I did wonder if perhaps starter activities were a bit “passé”. I c