Synopses & Reviews
If you buy only one book on metacognitive strategies for the last ten minutes of the
lesson this year, make it this one!
The Book of Plenary is the first in Phil Beadles How to Teach series, in which he examines in detail every aspect of the modern classroom. The first half of this volume gives interested teachers a series of easy-to-set-up activities that make plenaries engaging and worthwhile.
The second half is a detailed and almost serious examination of metacognition in the classroom. It seeks to give teachers the stimulus to prepare and research plenaries fully so that they actively seek to develop the metacognitive experience, knowledge and self regulation of students. Distanced from glib learn-to-learn programmes, this book engages with available research about metacognition and presents its relevance to the classroom in a lively, although sometimes childish, manner.
Phil Beadle is an English teacher and a former National Teaching Awards United Kingdom Secondary Teacher of the Year. He has also won two Royal Television Society Awards - for Channel 4s The Unteachables and Cant Read Cant Write. He is the editor/author of the How to Teach series, a series of books which cover every element of classroom practice in a highly practical, but wildly irreverent, manner.
Review
I found Phil Beadle's latest book, which focuses upon the importance of 'plenaries' -- the summing up of learning in a lesson -- really useful and engaging as well. If I'm honest, it's a part of my teaching repertoire that I could do with significantly improving since too often I don't plan for my plenaries in a satisfactory fashion. Phil shows how the latest educational research by experts like Hattie, Wiliam and host of other teachers indicates that when you get the plenary right you attain much better results and improve children's learning generally. I really like the no-nonsense tips like ending lessons with the learning objectives and starting with a gag; they're workable and don't involve tonnes of preparation. As ever with Phil's books -- and work generally -- thoroughly recommended. He's a very rare voice of sanity and good fun in an increasingly dogmatic and dispiriting educational landscape.
Francis Gilbert author of 'I'm A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here',
Synopsis
The only book full of ideas for lesson plenaries youll ever need.
Synopsis
Part of Phil Beadle's How to Teach Series.
If you buy only one book on metacognitive strategies for the last ten minutes of the lesson this year, make it this one
The Book of Plenary is part of Phil Beadle's How To Teach series, in which he examines in detail every aspect of the modern classroom. The first half of this volume gives interested teachers a series of easy-to-set-up activities that make plenaries engaging and worthwhile. The second half is a detailed and almost serious examination of metacognition in the classroom. It seeks to give teachers the stimulus to prepare and research plenaries fully so that they actively seek to develop the metacognitive experience, knowledge and self regulation of students. Distanced from glib 'learn-to-learn' programmes, this book engages with available research about metacognition and presents its relevance to the classroom in a lively, although sometimes childish, manner.
Synopsis
This practical book does what it says. It delivers a series of simple ideas for how to make your lesson endings or mid-lesson recaps interesting, engaging, and cognitively challenging. Apply these ideas and students will leave the lesson with the information you have taught them still in their heads.
Synopsis
The Book of Plenary is the first in Phil Beadles How to Teach series, in which he examines in detail every aspect of the modern classroom. The first half of this volume gives interested teachers a series of easy-to-set-up activities that make plenaries engaging and worthwhile.
About the Author
Phil Beadle teaches sentence structure through football skills, analyses poetry by dancing the verbs and is most renowned for teaching punctuation through kung fu moves, and teaching adults to read with space hoppers. He teaches English at a school in London and travels internationally indoctrinating teachers into being interesting.
Author web site:
www.philbeadle.com
www.independentthinking.co.uk/Who/Associates/Phil+Beadle/default.aspx
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 An Overview of the Plenary
Part 2 Analogue Plenaries
1 Dont Share the Objectives Until the End
2 Start with a Gag
3 A Pyramid of Plenary
4 Show Me the Money
5 Pick On Two Students
6 Extended Abstraction
7 What is the Exact Opposite of What You Have Learnt in This Lesson? .
8 The Frozen Picture
9 Mime the Learning
10 Key Word Storytelling
11 Key Word Definition Matching
12 Pelmanism
13 Do It Yourself Will Ya?
14 Quizzes
15 Taboo™
16 Drinking Games
17 Spot the Deliberate Mistake
18 Re-ordering or Re-sequencing a Text
19. Whats the Question?
20 Diagrammatic Representation
21 Spaced Repetition
22 The Plenary of Plenaries
Part 3 Metacognition for Beginners
Part 4 Digital Plenaries .
1 Homeworks Holy Grail
2 Organising and Transforming
3 Self-Consequences and 13. Imagery
4 Self-Instruction
5 Self-Evaluation
6 Help-Seeking
7 Keeping Records
8 Rehearsing and Memorising
9 Goal-Setting/Planning
10 Reviewing Records
11 Self-Monitoring
12 Task Strategies
14 Time Management
Potentially Useful Resources for Spods
Bibliography
Index