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I always ask about their weekends, remember things they’ve told me and ask them how their days going etc

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How Learner Learn - support services 19-08-25

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How learners like to learn - Generations & Teaching todays learners - 19/08/25

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How learners like to learn - Generations & Teaching todays learners - 19/08/25

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Introductions, Ice breaker, nominated leader and group changes. Quizzes, Kahoot's, false statements and debates.

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Starter activities often work well if they are linked to current events and have some humour.

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Starter activities often work well if they are linked to current events and have some humour.

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Greet at door

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When learners arrive I ask about their placements or their weeks and what that’s been like. I am thinking of adding some form of pre-activity as a mindfulness experience as there is some promising research in this area. I’ll nearly always start with something interesting and active, then I’ll do the share – and I’ll map what we’re learning to their module, their assignment and most importantly to their own practice. Not saying I always get it right, but that’s what I try to do. I need to do better at the share point too – I need to think of better ways to motivate learners at this point more. It’s tricky, but worthwhile.

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I appreciate this isn’t quite what the question is asking, but I think we miss a trick in the ‘share’ point of the session. So I start with a warm-up, something that’s a bit light-hearted and fun, something that uses their prior experiences or prior learning in a fast often collaborative way. BUT! The share point should engage their curiosity or introduce mystery or set a challenge which they look at and are not sure whether they can do it or not (at the end they realise they can. Great example:

Option 1 (interesting): Guys, the sun is really hot, yea… And if you’re closer to something hot, you get hotter yea….  So, if you are closer to the sun, it should be hotter right….  So why is there snow at the top of a mountain? That’s what we’re going to find out today. (ref: Petty, 2004)

Option 2 (boring): Today we are going to explore the relationship between pressure and temperature.

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I try to get to know them before they start. I interview them and they all do a ‘pen profile’ before they begin. This gives me a good insight into them. Before the first lesson, I memorise all their names, their subjects and their placements. I test myself before the lesson and during the first lesson I go around the room and make it a bit of game. At the same time, we do an ice breaker called ‘Sum & Difference’ where they work in a team to identify something they all have in common (nothing to do with education, employment or geography) and something totally unique about them, we then share the most unique things and see if there is anything we all have in common.

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Quizizz and blooket

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Kahoot

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We use games with our learners to build rapport and to break the ice with them to get them to open up and embed bits of learning that they can utilise them in future lessons (examples: pass the parcel, board games, kahoot and adapting pre-existing games for a learning environment such as using Tiktok drawing challenges and using them in the classroom)

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Two truths and a lie activity

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I greet them at the door so they can ask a quick Q and I can gauge their mood

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I greet them at the door so they can ask a quick Q and I can gauge their mood

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Ice breakers

One to one chats

Learner profiles

Vocational profiles

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Get to know each other and use Kahoot

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A sheet with Qs about their prior class experiemce so they can offload before the fresh start

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A sheet with Qs about their prior class experiemce so they can offload before the fresh start

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Setting expectations from the start and greeting them by their name.

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Team building activity, 2 truths and a false

Treasure hunt around classroom/college

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Post it on Padlet

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A bingo style 'find someone who..' sheet

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A bingo style 'find someone who..' sheet

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Hobbies is a good start

What they like and not like

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Introductions

Ice Breakers

Kahoot Quizzes

Meet & Greet

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House rules

Meet at the door

Explain expectations