Is it time to spruce up your plenaries?
Effective and impactful plenaries help ensure that our students understand what they have learned. They are an effective way of reinforcing and retrieving key points and concepts from the day’s lesson.
I remember well when the humble plenary was introduced to lessons. Before then, lessons often petered off into nothing and when you looked at books post lesson, you realised you were clearly not getting your point across effectively.
Fast forward several decades and plenaries proved themselves to be more than just an educational fad. Mini plenaries were