Blog Post 3 Peer Editing
After watching the videos, “What is Peer Editing” , “Peer Edit With Perfection” , and “Writing Peer Review Top 10 Mistakes” , I learned several techniques to help my fellow classmates in a productive and positive manner. Each peer review should be broken down into three primary categories:
A. Compliments- always start your review by complementing the things that the student did well. This allows the student to be put at ease and to realize you are not simply trying to dissect their work. Rather, you desire to help them grow as a writer and student.
B. Suggestions- Offer advice on the word choice, details, organization, and sentence structure of the student you are evaluating.
C. Corrections- Point out spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and capitalization errors the student made so that their paper reads properly and is as professional as possible.
By helping the student in this way, you help them to learn to improve as writer. I believe that as a future educator, this is also an excellent way to provide feedback to my students in order to help them improve while encouraging them by complementing their successes. I am a big believer in feeding the emotional piggybank of a person. In order to make a withdrawal ( negative feedback), you must have made enough deposits ( positive feedback) to ensure that you are not overdrawn. By doing this, a student’s confidence is built up and I believe that will lead to more class participation because the fear of embarrassment is diminished through the encouragement that we give as teachers
Thoughtful. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteBuilding a kid's confidence is something we, as teachers, should always try to do! I hate telling a child that they have done something wrong if they tried their hardest to do it right! We should make sure that they understand that just because they messed up does NOT mean that they are dumb or not smart enough. I really like your idea of the emotional piggy bank! I will definitely be using this idea when I teach!
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