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Tag: reflecting on learning
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Plenaries on a Plate – Free Resource
168 Zero-Planning Plenaries To Take the Pain Out of Lesson Preparation Viewed and Downloaded 160,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Help learners review and revisit the lesson content.…
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The Plenary Producer – Free Resource
120+ Plenary Activities to Make Your Lesson Planning Quicker, Simpler and More Enjoyable Viewed and Downloaded 550,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World 🎯 Plenary activities you can use to…
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Three of the simplest, yet most effective, strategies you can use to get learners thinking about the process of learning
Modelling, Suggesting, Prompting and Clueing We can help learners to think about and refine the processes they use during any lesson. Four good ways to do this are modelling, suggesting,…
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Twenty ready-made reflection questions that promote metacognition and help learners see their thinking as open to change
Reflective questioning asks learners to look at what they have done and to think critically about it. The aim is simple. To help learners assess and critique their own thinking,…
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What is metacognition and how does it connect to growth mindsets?
What do we think about when we think about thinking? What are you thinking? How are you thinking about it? Are you able to observe the thinking that you do…
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Ninety zero-planning, good-to-go plenary questions that will get your learners instantly reflecting on their learning
90 Zero-Planning Plenary Questions Here are ninety questions you can use as plenaries. All are generic, referring to the lesson or to the learning. Therefore, they can all be used…