Students love to view their peers’ work, and students can learn quite a bit from structured and purposeful sharing. “Project Walks,” sometimes called “Gallery Walks,” are great opportunities for students to obtain new ideas and to consider how they can incorporate these new ideas into future work.
Direct students to display their projects on desks or around the room and determine how you wish for them to move through the “gallery.” Decide whether you want your students to evaluate positive attributes of their peers’ work or to demonstrate learning.
If you wish students to identify what they like about projects, give each a Project Walk Observations and Reflections Sheet like the one provided here: PrjWlkObsRef. Making sure students identify positive attributes is very important, and any evaluation sheet should possess prompts encouraging the search for strengths in others’ works.
If you wish students to describe learning, give each a Project Walk Learning and Reflections Sheet like the one provided here: PrjWlkLrnRef. Information recorded on these sheets should be verified in some way following the walk to confirm students obtained correct information.
Both of these sheets can be collected and used as exit tickets (formative assessments) and make great artifacts for student portfolios.
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