Here’s a brilliantly reasoned blog on Do Now retrievals. It asks all the right questions about educational research, applying it to your setting and, crucially, to your classroom.
Perhaps ending a lesson with the task of the students to create their own key learning bullets, and their own retrieval questions to start the next lesson may be even more effective, as it: a] engages the students in identifying key learning within each lesson b] focusses their minds to recall these key points for next time and c] gives them the recall questions to remember.... And the billy bonus.... Reduced teacher workload! It's the students who should be working harder.... The teachers already are! [or should be!]
Yes, that would be an excellent experiment, comparing this to a different approach with another class. Students might identify knowledge they most need testing on, so it will be personalised. Or, they may be poor at this, and also not know what they have failed to understand. The experiment would guide the teacher as to which is true.
They'd need training in the process [as with most approaches] to maximise its effectiveness, but I reckon, with a bit of metacognition ... it could work well!
... and the learning objective[s] [correctly crafted] should be a clue!
Perhaps ending a lesson with the task of the students to create their own key learning bullets, and their own retrieval questions to start the next lesson may be even more effective, as it: a] engages the students in identifying key learning within each lesson b] focusses their minds to recall these key points for next time and c] gives them the recall questions to remember.... And the billy bonus.... Reduced teacher workload! It's the students who should be working harder.... The teachers already are! [or should be!]
Yes, that would be an excellent experiment, comparing this to a different approach with another class. Students might identify knowledge they most need testing on, so it will be personalised. Or, they may be poor at this, and also not know what they have failed to understand. The experiment would guide the teacher as to which is true.
They'd need training in the process [as with most approaches] to maximise its effectiveness, but I reckon, with a bit of metacognition ... it could work well!
... and the learning objective[s] [correctly crafted] should be a clue!
Yes. You should try it out!
Sorry, I'm retired, and leaders on the Isle of wight [which is disastrous for secondary education] seem to think all's going fine! :-(
Yes, I worked with a head from the Isle of White in a challenging school on the mainland, and my limited experience suggests you are right.