One of the benefits to observing lessons is that this old dog, still gets to learn new tricks. Like all good mavens, I collect these and share them. Like the 54 Ways to introduce a Learning Objective Google Doc. This week I saw a different take on ‘Odd one out.’ Interestingly, the students really like the ‘game’ of it and were in fact, very creative, as they were slowly directed toward their learning objective. So I thought I would give it a try. In these these three slides I was trying to steer the students towards the theme of immigrant and migrant workers in Steinbeck ‘Of Mice and Men.’ I started with the concept, then the rules and then an easy example. This took just 40 seconds.
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Then the thinking. I was quite impressed with the creative answers the students offered. I was quite surprised it took them so long to get the answer I was looking for. It was not without some prompting and their limited knowledge of Paddington that we got to the answer.
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The final slide lead to much debate. Mainly on whether or not there had been a song about a migrant??
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It was a fun starter, but more importantly the students where primed for thinking and the rest of the lesson was much better for it.
Equally good for maths questions, equations and hinge questions. If you spot any further odd one’s out, do let me know.
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