| How can looking at other pupils’ work help them to learn? |
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Pupils can develop new learning strategies by scrutinising the work of their peers because they gain a wider view of what is possible. Exploring other pupils’ work allows pupils to see different ways of tackling the same task and, as a result, extend their own repertoire. Pupils also come to learn new and better strategies through trying to explain the strengths and weaknesses in their own work to others  .
Your evidence
You might like to explore the learning that takes place between pairs or small groups of pupils in one of your classes. You could monitor (or if necessary plan) a series of activities designed to help your pupils to learn from each other about, for example, a particular writing genre, such as a description. You could ask them to first write a description, then share their work with each other by reading their descriptions out loud to each other and commenting on what they feel works well and what doesn’t. Then you might ask them to revise their own description in the light of the comments. You could compare your pupils’ original and revised pieces to help you see what they learned from each other. You could also ask your pupils to say what they feel they learned from each other. Moving forward Having gained an idea of the criteria and strategies your pupils use, you might like to consider how you might enhance them. Would sharing your marking schemes and criteria with your pupils, and getting them to apply them to their own work be helpful? Could you share ideas with a colleague about ways of getting pupils to work effectively with each other? Find out more  You can find out more about how AfL practices help pupils learn how to learn on the TLRP Learning how to learn project website at: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase11/phase2f.htmlYou can find out more about the potential of AfL to develop and improve pupil learning on the GTC’s Research of the Month website at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/research/romtopics/rom_teachingandlearning/raising/ You can find out more about putting AfL into practice on the GTC’s Research of the Month website at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/policyandresearch/research/ROMtopics/afl/ You can find more further reading suggestions on the theme of assessment for learning at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch14/nfr14.html |
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