Sunday, October 11, 2015
Blog #6 Gallery Walk and Peer Assessments
How can doing a Gallery Walk of any kind (and the preparing to do one) meet the needs of more learners than a simple "read and write about it" activity? How is it more inclusive? Or can you make an argument that it might be less inclusive for some? Be specific! Blog by class Wednesday, Oct. 14 and respond to your group by class on Sunday, Oct. 18 (note the change because I've posted late).
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I think preparing to a gallery walk is helpful for more learners because the students get to do their assignment in they way that they want and it lets them be creative. If students are unmotivated to do work, a gallery work can motivate them because they know that their classmates will be looking at what they have done. Gallery walks also allow students to see other ways go completing assignments that they might like to try in the future. If students are ADHD or ADD it gives them the chance to get up and walk around the room. I believe this activity is more inclusive because it gives students the opportunity to be involved in the grading process if you are having them give feedback, and it lets students show others what they know and some of their own strengths that might not be seen during a "read and write" activity or normal classroom discussion.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it helps the students learn different ways to do something and it helps think differently. I also like how you pointed out that since their classmates will see this they will not want to do badly. The one thing I would like clarification on is how it lets them be creative because creativity usually is confined by the structure of the assignment not who views it.
DeleteDoing a gallery walk can meet the needs of several learners because it allows students to get up and moving, and take a personal look into their peer's work. It is more inclusive because everyone is evaluating everyone, so no one is being left out. The gallery walk can also provide students with a different way of thinking or providing answers. They may get ideas of their own from seeing another student's work.
ReplyDeleteI like how you included that the gallery walk involves taking a personal look at their peers work because some students may think it is just something to do, but don't realize how much effort it took to do their section of the gallery walk. I also agree that it is more inclusive.
DeleteIt is definitely useful for getting up and moving especially after recess, but I would have them write down or reflect about the gallery walk so as a teacher we can see that they actually looked or possibly got something out of it.
DeleteCreating and completing a gallery walk of any kind meets the needs of more learners than the ordinary way of reading and writing about it because it allows them to move around rather than restricting them to their seats. It also helps them by allowing them to see the material, which helps the visual learners and others can hear about the material from other students who read it, which helps the auditory learners. It is more inclusive because it tends to the learners who learn by listening, helps those students who learn visually, and students with ADHD because they get to walk around the room, instead of just sitting down the whole time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a gallery walk meeting the needs. Students can also see that there are different ways to learn and they can see those learning and comprehension strategies.
DeleteI agree that the gallery walk allows students to get up and moving instead of being constricted to their seats. And like you mentioned, this is especially helpful for kids who may have ADD or ADHD.
DeleteDoing Gallery Walks allows the student to have a choice in how they want to represent their knowledge. Students can walk around and look at each students work and see how they learned the information. This is more inclusive because it's choice and since there are so many kinds of kids in a single classroom chances are there are accommodations being made like ADHD kids get to move, kids have visual aids, but also kids who are in wheelchairs they get to move as well as long as there is plenty of room for them to get through.
ReplyDeleteThe only argument I think that could be made with gallery walks being less inclusive would be the "restrictions" the teacher placed on the gallery walk projects.
I love that you said it allows students to have a choice on how they want to represent their knowledge because I couldn't agree more. Hopefully the teacher wouldn't make too many restrictions on the kids, and let them have expanding ideas about what they wanted to present.
DeleteI didn't think of the gallery walks being a sort of restriction for students, but you did make a good point about it being restrictive because of the type of assignment the teacher may give. It helps me to be aware of the types of gallery walks i may assign the students to do as a future teacher.
DeleteI didn't think of the gallery walks being a sort of restriction for students, but you did make a good point about it being restrictive because of the type of assignment the teacher may give. It helps me to be aware of the types of gallery walks i may assign the students to do as a future teacher.
DeleteI think that the preparation of a gallery walk helps different types of learners because it prepares them for it. When students go through the gallery walk it helps them by exposing them to different ways of doing things. This is helpful because this helps them expand their way of thinking which will let them be better at problem solving. It meets the needs of more learners than the read and write method because it exposes them to others ideas than just their own. It is inclusive because it gets all of the students to participate in the activity rather than just having them do it by themselves. There is not much of an argument to say that they are less inclusive besides how it is done.
ReplyDeleteI think it is also good for showing students different ways of doing an assignment and it gives them a choice in how they want to do something.
ReplyDeleteI think it is also good for showing students different ways of doing an assignment and it gives them a choice in how they want to do something.
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