Observation #4: Peer-Review
Peer-Review- The Ups and Downs of Letting Students Critique Each Other My fourth and final observation occurred during my Narrative Unit. In this unit I was guiding students through writing one of three narrative options; Personal, Illness, or Fiction. I let the students have this choice in an effort to differentiate, and to alleviate any anxieties about being required to write about an actual experience they had lived through, or of having to be vulnerable in front of their peers/me. It worked wonderfully and I've read equal amounts of stories from each genre, and some which overlap in exciting ways! As part of this unit, I assigned a Peer Review to help students understand this unit was part of viewing writing as a process, and so they could compare their writing level to that of their peers. Shannon observed me on the peer review day. This observation went very well for me, despite my nerves attempting to fool me into believing otherwise. Everything went according to plan, I...