“Sleep after learning aids memory recall." It's true, apparently. Research proves it (Gais, Steffen, Brian Lucas, and Jan Born, 2006). Our plenaries should be nap-based. It would certainly be a risky choice when Ofsted are in...
But for those of us who don't have beds in our classrooms, we need to think of other solutions.
Phil Beadle, author of How to Teach: The book of plenary, here endeth the lesson, says we need to make our students work cognitively in our plenaries as well as in the main body of our lessons. We need to look at the higher levels of Blooms' Taxonomy, getting our students applying, analysing, evaluating and creating.
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