Induction: Welcome to BDC

Aims

First Day Overview: Understand what your first day at college will involve

Timetable Access: Learn how to access and read your college timetable

College Expectations: Hear about the college's expectations from you as a student

Student Expectations: Share your expectations from the college

Day Plan
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To access your up-to-date timetable use the BDC Timetable Checker at timetable.bdc.ac.uk
Scan the QR Code with your phone to access your timetable.

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These are the expected behaviors in every classroom. Please make yourself aware of them.

Readiness to Learn Checklist

Silent line (5-10 minutes)

Task the learners into a line from youngest to oldest without speaking to one another. Set a time limit to add a sense of urgency. If you want the exercise to run for longer, run the task a second time with learners arranging themselves alphabetically by name, if a timer was used previously, then encourage them to try and beat their previous time.

Two truths, one lie (10-15 minutes)

Learners (and tutors) take it in turns to tell the group two truths about themselves and a lie, the class then discuss which they think is the lie and vote. This will provide an opportunity for conversation and building rapport. If the activity is becoming too easy, mix things up by changing the rules to ask for two lies and a truth.

Guessing game (15-20 minutes)

Learners write down the name of an object on a scrap of paper and place it into a hat. The item can be subject specific but does not need to be. Divide the class into two groups of roughly equal size. One at a time, learners from each team must draw a piece of paper from the hat and have 1 minute to try and describe the object to their peers. If their team guesses correctly, that team earns a point. If the teams work through all the bits of paper, fold them all up, place them back into the hat and begin again. This time the learners have a single word to try and help their team with the guessing.