Students find this approach to learning, both challenging and rewarding. Often students and teachers create the rubric at the beginning of the unit, clearly defining the expectations for their presentations. Providing options withing the broad outline of a unit enable students to 'own' their learning. Presenting, peer marking and teaching others subsequently deepens knowledge across the whole unit.
Peer assessment is a powerful strategy, broaden the depth of understanding and engagement with their peer's work. The Year 3 & 4 rubric is suitably differentiated as they learn the skills to respectfully provide feeback to the classmates. The language of constructive criticism is developed over subsequent years to complement learning. Likewise, students learn accept the opinions of others and if beneficial can improve their work next time, striving for ongoing improvement.
