After reading another one of Rusul Alrubail's blog posts on Peer feedback, I wanted to write about it on my blog. I love her blog posts because I want to be an English teacher and she offers great strategies and activities for reading and writing. Peer feedback can be done from K-12 and I would argue that peer assessment helps to build moral literacy and problem solving skills. By assessing their peer's work or presentation, students learn how to be kind in their feedback but also students have to be critical thinkers in order to help their peers improve their work. In turn, this helps students assess their own work critically as well.
A great technique to use at any age is "Two stars and a wish," wherein students when marking their peers, provide two positive aspects of the work but one aspect that could use improvement. When volunteering in a grade 1 classroom this was very effective in teaching children how to communicate appropriately and kindly with one another, thus helping them to be morally literate for the future. In fourth year university, my education class also used "Two stars and a wish," proving that it can be useful at any age.Rusul's blog post also outlines ways to introduce peer feedback into the class:
- "Have students focus on the positive aspects of the work before pointing out areas of improvement.
- Show students how they can phrase things constructively. Instead of “I don’t understand the point of your introduction,” try this: “Your thesis statement can be stronger. Can you provide examples?”
- Provide students with categories/areas to focus on when giving feedback, for example: Grammar, structure, sentences, creativity, etc."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqWCJZH8ziQ
Just a quick but insightful post! Thanks.
With every good wish,
Miss Roberts
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