PUBLIC CRITIQUE

TYPICAL PEER ASSESSMENT? Examples of peer assessment from Year 7 and

Year 9 – Using success criteria to assess work

PUBLIC CRITIQUE Based on Ron Berger’s theory of feedback.

oBe Kind oBe SpecificoBe Helpful

PUBLIC CRITIQUEBE KIND

It's essential that students feel safe in this critiquing environment.

Students and teachers need to be vigilant against any hurtful comments: including sarcasm.

Ideally a Public Critique protocol (of these rules) is explained and agreed by all.

PUBLIC CRITIQUEBE SPECIFIC

Comments like "your work is good" and "I like it" are not useful.

Important to focus on vocabulary building in the critique process.

"if we picture our critique as surgically dissecting a piece of work to improve it, our vocabulary is our kit of surgical tools. If we only have words like 'it's good' or 'it's bad' we are trying to do surgery with a meat cleaver. If we want to dissect the work carefully and put it back together well, we need a kit of precise tools" Ron Berger

PUBLIC CRITIQUEBE HELPFUL

The goal is to help the individual student and the class and not for the critic to be heard.

Students should critique the work and learning, not the student.

AFTER PUBLIC CRITIQUE

THE IMPORTANT BIT

THE BEST EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC CRITIQUE

THREE WAYS OF USING PUBLIC CRITIQUE

Gallery - use post it notes around the room In depth – as a class critiquing the same

source Peer Critique

Ron Berger suggests peer critique will happen most effectively if pupils first carry out an in depth critique together; both before and after peer critique.

FOR MORE INFO…

Buy Ron Berger’s book – An Ethic of Excellence: http://www.amazon.com/Ethic-Excellence-Building-Craftsmanship-Students/dp/0325005966/ref=la_B001IGNKPW_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350767537&sr=1-1

Read work by Darren Mean or Neal Watkin See Tait Cole’s blog http://taitcoles.wordpress.com/

Use other techinques too: Medal, Mission, Goal SAME (Simple, accurate, measurable & engaging) One School's example: http

://superteacherborntoteach.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/picture14.jpg Good, Great, Even Better! Public Critique