Start School Lesson Ideas

Well, I always do a sort of warm-up activities. Their brains were out of school for some time, so they need to be warmed up. Since I teach English, I usually give them some light conversation if they're teenagers or to write me a story. They are always allowed to do it in pairs. With my young onses, I play "Hangman" to revise spelling, or if they're too young to write I create a speaking situation (in a restaurant, at the market, in Disneyland...). The most important thing is to get them a chance to "get back" to school mentally.

I work with high school students in language arts classes. I like to develop a set of questions (perhaps five or six) quickly with the class. (Some could be things like Who is your favorite author? or What is the best book you read in the last year? or What book would you like to read next? Others can be more traditional such as favorite food or singer.) Then I pair them up, trying to get students who don't necessarily know each other. They have 10 minutes to talk and find out some info about each other. If they are in a writing class, I may ask them to write a brief paragraph introducing the other student, and turn it in. If it's a more general language arts class, I ask them to do a one-minute introduction of the other person, sharing something of interest to the class. I model this to set the tone and provide some language. This gives everyone a chance to speak the first day, both to a classmate and to the entire class. If they did an oral presentation, then their homework is to write something tied to what they learned about the person. (I give specific directions.) It also helps me to learn a few things about the students in the class. It keeps them active and involved on the first day. It gets them to know someone else's name. In a big high school, it humanizes the experience. I think we need to be involved and engaging from the first day, and building an appropriate classroom environment for communication is essential in a language arts classroom.

we start with our new comers by ice breaking sessions, introduction of our school methodology, teacher profiles, meditation, introduction of old classmates. treating them in a friendly way, getting closer , knowing likes and dislikes.

I would make all the students write their own private expectation from the coming year and what they expect from the class as a whole on a piece of paper and then the whole class would berry it out side in a box , at the end of the year we would check if the class achieved what they desired.

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