Plenaries

We all know that students should have the opportunity to review their learning at the end of a lesson, but how can this be achieved? Here's some ideas taken from a variety of websites.

List 3 things you learnt today

• Compare with a partner and justify your choices/ranking
  
• Write 3 top tips/golden rules for...
• Identify one other text type where these rules apply
• Write me a tweet about today's lesson (140 characters)
• Draw a spider diagram showing what you have learnt today
• Draw a mind-map showing what you have learnt today

Baseline and Final Point

• Students put questions on post-it notes at lesson start after aims/objectives have been shared by teacher (good base-line exercise)
  
• Can they then answer the question on the reverse at the end?
• Continuum line at start and end of lesson. Where are they now?

If lesson aim was set as question, students answer question on whiteboards

• Set word limit for answer
  
• Require key technical vocabulary in answer
  

Write definitions for 3 new terms learned today

• Compare with partner and select best, justifying your choices
  
• How would you explain the definition to another pupil, an adult, a Professor?

Show finished class work to partner - judge against criteria provided by teacher (colour coding, +/-)

• Give each other a level or grade
  
• Set each other one target for improvement
  

Show extract from anonymous student's work - class identify 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses

• Give a level/grade against extended criteria

Prediction exercises - what will happen next?

• Why? Reason? Justify with evidence?
  

True or false? Relevant or irrelevant? Alike or different? Fact/opinion?

• Why? Reason? 
• Justify with evidence
  

Draw a timeline or chart showing cause and effect, sequence, chronological order