Peer-to-Peer Learning

Quick Write:

Think back over your entire educational career to those moments that were truly transformational. Describe a class, a teacher and/or an activity that made an incredible impact on your learning. Reflect on why this particular experience created such a lasting impression.

Writing Assessment

Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning

• Begins with educational values
• Works best when...explicitly stated purposes
• Requires attention to outcomes
• Is ongoing, not episodic
• Promotes change

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

My Core Beliefs for Teaching Writing

• Students need some CHOICE in what they write
• Students need timely FEEDBACK that is specific
• Students need TIME to practice and apply what they learn

CHANGING MY PRACTICE

Go Paperless

Confer

Use Audio Comments

Encourage Self Assessment

What if students themselves used rubrics or checklists to examine their peers’ efforts and evaluate their own work, instead of instructors spending hours and hours commenting on papers? What if students viewed their peers as resources and collaborators, as opposed to competitors in courses that employ grade curving?

Utilize Peer Response

Kaizena to the Rescue

T.A.G.

• Tell what you like
• Ask questions
• Give advice

The Process

• Save work as Google Doc
• Share your work with instructor www.kaizena.com/tthomas
• Share work with partner using his/her Kaizena link
• T.A.G. your partner's work