Daily review

Most of our lessons begin with a well-planned, low stakes assessment that provides feedback to both the teacher and young person. Tasks are linked to learning topics from throughout the course. A similar plenary at the end of each lesson gathers evidence of what has been learned and helps the teacher plan for the next lesson.

"Teaching isn't about getting through content, it is about students learning this content"

Plenaries

Retrieval practice

Intro

Starter activities

Add value to the lesson. They help young people strengthen their memory whilst helping them recognise what they already know and what they don't know. They motive young people to study.

Starter activities:

- should have meaning - they should be linked to the topics being studied
- include low-stakes diagnostic assessment, promoting recall (retrieval practice) from everyone
- include material required for the lesson, recent and less recent material - it is good practice to include less recent material to demonstrate the important of reflecting on learning from previous lessons.

Examples:

Last lesson - write down what we learned last lesson
Empty your brain - write down everything about a particular topic
Teacher quizzing - self-marking Google Forms, Socrative Quizzes, Plickers etc
Show me boards/Google Jamboard to show response to questions
Self quizzing - flash cards, BBC Bitesize, knowledge organisers
Peer quizzing - flash cards developed and used in pairs

Additional strategies to try

Plenary

Plenaries offer young people the opportunity to reflect on their learning.

Plenaries:

- revisits the learning intention and success criteria
- reinforces the main learning points
- use low-stakes assessment to gather further evidence about what has been learned or not learned
- summarises next steps for the young person based on both summative and formative feedback

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