I spoke with @Alex Black yesterday, one of our teacher trainers at InTA, and we had a very interesting conversation about how many of us find the start of a lesson challenging.
Those first 10 minutes are so important. They are not only about getting our students ready to learn, but also about reviewing what was done in the previous lesson and, especially, giving them something that immediately gets them thinking.
It could be a question, an image, a short problem, a surprising statement or something connected to what they already know.
How do you manage those first 10 important minutes of your class? What do you do to get your students thinking and ready to learn?
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Those first 10 minuntes can make or break the next 40! It's impossible to know what really worked in those 10 minutes if there is no real time record of what the teacher or students said. That's what I am trying to provide teachers with at Inform(Ed)—a way to look back at segments of a class and analyze the data (question type, speaking rate, talk time, etc.).