Plenaries

What we'd all love to do better ....

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Why

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Students have busy, chaotic lives where they move location, teaching style, peer group and

sometimes mindset every hour. By summarising their learning, and checking for understanding,

we can help bring clarity to students' learning. These plenaries allow information to be

consolidated before they move on to another realm. Additionally, plenaries;

-  Allow students to practice retrieval

- Act as a formative assessment for students to display success criteria

- Check for understanding; 'just because you taught it, doesn't mean they learnt it'!

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What

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Golden rules

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They must be planned (with plenty of time allotted)                  The students must do the work

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A – Assess the whole class’ understanding at once

B – Build them into a lesson where appropriate (not necessarily at the end)

C – Confront student’s misconceptions – there and then, or at a later date.

D – Differentiate = tricky! While learning intentions should be the same, success criteria must be different

E – Evaluation by the sts of what they have learnt and how.

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How

Exit Tickets:

Post it notes

Mini whiteboards

Teacher check of work

Shoot the sheriff

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Quizzes + games

Online – kahoot, quizziz, socrative 

Guess the question – read out answer + sts must formulate question 

Memory game – put keywords on board for 1 minute, erase and have students write them 

Keyword bingo – sts write keywords, you read out definition

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Visible Learning

Premade slips - How well did you understand today’s material?

What did you learn in today’s class?

 3-2-1;

 I used to think …. Now I think

 Dual coding – turn a concept into an image

 

Kinaesthetic + social

Values walk – students stand on continuum and justify position

 Multi choice – put A, B, C, D in corners of room and have sts stand in answer to your question

 Topic Tennis – In pairs, students must write words related to the topic, until one can’t go any further.

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