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1. CPD Programme for English Teachers Cluster School CPD Day 3

Accelerating English Language Learning in Central Asia
CPD Programme for English Teachers
Cluster School CPD Day 3
“How can we engage our students at the
start of the lesson and end our lessons
effectively?”
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2. Do you remember how Mr. Ray in “Finding Nemo” engages his students from the very beginning?

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3. What do these three images have in common?

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Key question is…..
How can we engage our students at the
start of the lesson and end our lessons
effectively?
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5. Outcome prediction challenge: Guess three things you think you will learn in this session!

Wonder
Question
Find out
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6. Session outcomes

By the end of the day, you teachers be able to:
• Identify and list characteristics of an engaging start and end to a
lesson.
• Plan and demonstrate an engaging starter.
• Write action steps for more engaging starts and endings to lessons to
try out at school.
• Reflect on the key points of professional learning from this activity
and identify concrete actions for their own teaching.
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7. Activity 1. Donut

• Stand in 2 circles (inner facing outer).
• Share your SEL activity experience with
the partner in front of you (2 mins each).
• Rotate and repeat with a new partner.
• Rotate until you come to your initial
place.
• After rotations, share the most
interesting ideas you heard.
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8.

Engaging Learners in the First Five Minutes of
Class: Ideas and Lesson Starters
Interactive polls
Engaging
multimedia
Mini icebreakers
Quick
vocabulary
review
Warm-up
questions
Sentence
starters
Mindfulness
moment
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Word of the day
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9. Activity 2: The Mystery Bag What’s in the bag?

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10. How is the previous activity related to starting a lesson and engaging our students?

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11. Activity 3: “Take & Transform” Choose 1 idea from the article and adapt it to fit a completely unexpected scenario

Activity 3: “Take & Transform”
Choose 1 idea from the article and adapt it to fit a completely
unexpected scenario
Group 1: Teaching outside
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Group 2: Teaching online
Group 3: Noisy classroom
Group 4: No materials
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12. Activity 4. Lesson Starter “Battle Rounds”

Work in small groups
Take one of the suggested starters
Prepare a 5- minute lesson starter based
on a textbook lesson.
One teacher from each group will
demonstrate.
Group feedback using PQP technique
Plenary discussion: “How can we turn the
usual classroom ‘routine’ into an engaging
hook for the lesson?”
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13. Small Group Discussion.

How do you currently start your lessons? Do you start them the same
way or differently? Are the learners engaged? How do you know?
What ideas from the webinar sparked your interest? Why?
Why is an engaging starter important?
Based on the article, what new ideas would you like to try and/or how will
you adapt the way you start your classes?
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What about ending the lesson?
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15. All’s well that ends well: three activities to encourage reflection

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16. Activity 3. Gallery walk

Stations around the room each
presents 3 ways to end a lesson.
Rotate in small groups, reading,
discussing, and adding stickynote ideas for how to use it in
your context.
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17. Conclusion and Reflection. The “One Change” Challenge

Write one change you’ll make to your lesson starts or endings this week on a sticky note.
Stick them on a “Commitment Wall” at the front of the room
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18. Peer coaching: Partner up with someone you didn’t work with today and ask: “What specific change will you make in your lessons

based on today’s session?”
“How will we follow up with each other to see how it went?”
Home Task
Implement at least one new starter and one new ending in next week’s lessons.
Record reflections in CPD Journal: what worked, what didn’t, and learner reactions
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19. Remember what Dory said?

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20. Thank you

“No matter the challenges in our
classrooms, just keep planning, just
keep trying, just keep teaching!”
Thank you
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