How to set up and run a good lesson

• Make sure you have watched the video and have all the resources printed and ready for the children.

• Explain what they will be learning and ‘show’ them how to do some examples.

• Don’t feel you have to know all the answers - it can be really helpful for young people when they see you learning alongside them, and working things out together .

• If they are finding things hard then show them again and let them then have a go more independently.

• Let them help each other out - this can be really effective.

• Try to always end on a positive note - point out things that each member of the group has mastered.

• Encourage them to tell you how they think they have done - this will help to develop their confidence.

• Remind them all the time that mistakes are fine - they are part of learning!