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Tag: reflection
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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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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…
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Why is putting a work discussion in your lesson plan a good way to help learners develop their speaking and listening skills while also getting them to think more critically?
Work Discussion Discussion Strategy: Explanation The teacher sets learners a major piece of work. Examples of what this might entail include an extended piece of writing, an independent project or…