Add your own lesson starter or provocation activities.
Get your learners to press the button, virtually or in person, to trigger the starter selection.
You may need to guide learners with less experience, but for those familiar with your starters, you can use your established classroom approaches to get learners immediately actively engaged in the lesson.
The most effective use of this tool is where you use it to trigger an immediate starter – you introduce the topic, run the starter selector, and the class is confident to take it on themselves.
Examples
Business Studies: "I login to the School Support hub, follow the link to Teaching Tools, and then use the Starter Selector. I use a collection of 12 different starters and enjoy the random selection. It is a quick and direct
focus for my lesson."
Science: "We use the starter selector to pick from a range of Cambridge suggestions. Sharing the screen in class helps grab attention and support active engagement in the lesson."
Computer Science: "We use a collection of simple starter activities that learners know – such as true/false, how many?, define the word, what’s the problem? The tool selects the starter and that focuses the learners on the lesson
immediately."