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I think peer review is a way of improving our work...

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Peer-review in L2-writing is a common method used to help the writer revise his essay. In my opinion, peer review is a way to deeper learning and high order thinking. If one take a look at Blooms taxonomy one will see that the process of peer review is taking place at the last three levels: analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating. But my experience has told me that a critical point for succeeding with peer review is that participants need to know the why and how to do it. This needs a lot of practice for students. But when they get the idea it really works. When I’m listening to all the discussions and negotiations actions taking place during the peer review session than I always be reminded why I have choosen to be a teacher.

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Peer-review should be a powerful tool for professional development, I agree it can be very useful if both sides are open minded and can take critics positively. Unfortunately, I have many examples where colleagues or students take critics badly as an assault, where it should be positive and useful.

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Peer-Review: A collaborative feedback, an exchange of views, which improves our practices in teaching and learning. Also, in conditions of feedback, teacher and students learn more and connect knowledge with their experiences.

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I think these strategies are very useful. I agree that peer review of each other's lesson plans or observations equal to lessons is a useful form of professional development. I would recommend you use this method with small groups of students, 2-5 and workshop activities, research or creative.

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I met peer review participating several MOOCs where they use it because there is no other way to assess thousand of participants. Yes u really learn when u r not only a student but a teacher too. I found it so useful that I try to use in my math classes when possible. You see students knowledge reformed.

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In my oppinion peer review is a way of improving your work , your students work , your teacher colegues work . It reveals to you new ideas , new ways of approaching a learning activitie , a method , a tool .... I think it works only if peers are openminded persons or if they ..... want to hear each others oppinions .

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Peer observation in lessons is definitely a very useful form of professional development as we have the chance to share our teaching ideas with colleagues with the aim to improving each other's lesson. Necessary prerequisites are the skill and knowledge we should possess so as to provide constructive feedback. I believe the same applies to students.

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I think it is very important as a tool for students and teachers..

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I love this course, becuase offer me new possibilities to teach. Peer review is very important for open-mind teachers and students.

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I think it s very impoartant especially for young learners..

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I think it is amasing so I could hear another opinion on my strategies.

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to me, peer review is a good way of colloborative learning and teaches the stakeholders to describe the journey to learning and understand how they learn.

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If peer review is done well, I believe it can only have positive impact on both students and teachers. It might be more difficult for teachers to accept peer review. Young people are more open-minded.

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Gabriela Cruz

I see the peer review as a good way to help teachers improve their work in the classroom. The teacher who does the peer review can give a powerful feedback about the teaching practices. He can notice what is wrong and must be corrected. And, in the other side, he can enhance what is well utilised.

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Peer review obliges us to be more critical about our own work.

Peer review improves our work.

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Peer review is not always easy or perfect in regard to the ideal aims of this activity. It always depends on ethics and on civics, but WE SHALL KEEP ON TRYING! I am doing it in a very modest measure with my 15-16 year old students and even if the results are not the best in every case, still they engage and are very honest. The classroom is too often seen as a black box , only opened when something goes really bad, but I think this situation is on the move . When I first did peer review for an international journal on pedagogy, I learned a lot both as a doer and a receiver

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Peer review is not always easy or perfect in regard to the ideal aims of this activity. It always depends on ethics and on civics, but WE SHALL KEEP ON TRYING! I am doing it in a very modest measure with my 15-16 year old students and even if the results are not the best in every case, still they engage and are very honest. The classroom is too often seen as a black box , only opened when something goes really bad, but I think this situation is on the move . When I first did peer review for an international journal on pedagogy, I learned a lot both as a doer and a receiver

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LISA-ITALY

Peer review is a great example of cooperative learning and also a good way for pursuing critical sensibility

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I think the peer review strategies are good tools to get students use to compare and confront their knowledge and skills with those of their mates ... and get teachers more collaborative with their colleagues.

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I think that peer-review is very important to our professional and personal development. Analyze our classes together with our peers allows us to have more confidence that we are developing a good job and we are not committing error. I am delegate of my group and so have had to make classroom observation within the teacher evaluation. Were useful to them, can they improve because considering my comments and helpful for me because I can see that some things do badly and I can improve other. In relation to students, I understand that they prefer as they perform their jobs, these are commented upon by his colleagues. Allow the best reviews of his peers seem to be more willing to hear and thus learn better than if the teacher to suggest a change.

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I think it's very important as a tool. Can I have a model by email please:

hicham.nassir@gm

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I think that ist's very important as a tool. Can i have a model please

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It can be difficult to apply it with high school students but it is worth trying. It sounds interesting.

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Never considered this opportunity in learning. Thanks for this opportunity, both for students and for teacher

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Peer-review could be interesting way of discussion in classroom.

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Maria Rellia, Primary School Teacher of English, Athens, Greece

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Maria Rellia, Primary School Teacher of English, Athens, Greece

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Peer review is definitely a "must" when teaching language lessons

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It is a friendly way to tolerate other's mistakes wiht a positive critisim; an way to believe that the other one in the classs can be a guide for yourself.

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it's a very good way of confronting and accepting opinions and ideas and suggestions. it can help you to look at your work from different points of view and see aspects and things that you maybe would never notice . it' so a way to grow up and become collaborative and ready to change

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Peer Review is a process I tried with my students (10 years old). This takes a lot of time but encorages them to accept others point of view and that criteria can evolve and being enriched. I´m talking about simple works but is a beginning....

However, this activity can be more difficult during teacher training because its a sensitive pedagogical issue, because for most of teachers they don´t accept, or at least needs more time to convince them of the benefits. Open doors in classrooms are still problematic.

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I think this could be a great strategy.

In my school we don't work this way, but I realise that we would be able to develop our lesson plans, and main of all the activities that we promote in class.

Between students we proceed in the same way. In classes they are invited to expose their opinions about the work their colleagues do, but just when they present it to the class. They don't have the chance to change things before it.

I have the articles experience and in that field I admit that the results are very good.

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Melania Filip/Romania

I think peer review is very important for all, teachers and students.

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Peer review can be very useful as a professional development tool. The problem is when we use this tool to assess the teacher. No to improve the quality of his work, but only to create an obstacle in the career. This happens in Portugal 4 years ago!...

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It can be quite useful, we also do it at school sometimes.

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I think peer-review is extremely important not only for teachers but also for students. The feedback you give and receive can help you and move forward in your job.

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I think the Peer-review is an excellent way of development and growth. It is extremely interesting for the wealth that adds to the propose work and also in individual development: critical thinking, respect, decision making, communication, capacity for analysis and synthesis, .... This is a concept that usually have to use what I have called critical friend.

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In my view peer review is a very useful tool which helps students in developing critical thinking and analyzing skills.

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I discovered and experimented peer review with Coursera's MOOCs. It remained virtual, but quite pertinent. The I experimented it in the classroom as a doctorate student these last months. It is a great challenge but it works well. I like it.

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I think peer review is very important and in the case of my students 15-18 works great.

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I think that it works very well in a classroom with teens or adults, because students have more elements to value and help peers. I've tried it with teens, and it works very well. The best thing of this is students also learn to be more tolerant and to give and accept an opinion, and the class becomes more democratic. I've never tried with students from primary school, perhaps it could work and they could learn to be more tolerant too.

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I want a model of activity sheet, I don't know exactly what can I write.
lidiaristea2004@yahoo.com

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I sometimes do peer reviewing in my classroom. On the one hand it's time-consuming, but on the other hand this strategy has got so many benefits. Peer reviewing is truly enriching for both sides.

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We use peer review daily in our preschool and primary school. Peer review between children at the end of an activity or project is very, very interesting. We, the teachers, usually know how to underline the best parts of their work. The children could be sometimes very harsh and direct in their comments. It is very interesting to watch how rhe children reactions and responses are developing and transforming in constructiv help and suport .

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Reckon is a weak point in many of our methodological approaches... we must work on it.

A friend of mine, also a teacher, did it once... It was very constructive, and useful for avoiding tics, repetitions, "inappropriate gesture", lesson planning.

We can get many ideas from the video, to mention one I pinpoint" Preminent teachers can be peers for junior sudents"

Hands on it.

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I've never done it in a serious or professional way. But I think it's really interesting and should give it a try if I knew how to do it. It would be very important to have some guidelines to show us how the process of peer review should be done.

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I often use peer rewiev at the end of a new activity, pupils help each others to better understand.

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Peer review is an excellent way to work. The google doc allows performing a shared work. There are learning platform like Moodle and the Edmodo allowing my learning resources may see revised by other colleagues.  Share resources and to collect the opinions of colleagues are the best way to continue to guarantee a good job.

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So do I. But after this course i'll use use it more. Thank you for all you gave me.

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I use sometimes peer review, I think it improve the professional development. I agree with many collegues it'is necessary for teachers but mainly for students.

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I agree that peer review of each other's lesson plans or peer observations in lessons can be a useful form of professional development. I have a experience to do this…

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I use peer review to evaluate the final work made using ITC in order to appreciate when and how ITC are really effective

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I'm agree with Adil Tugyan /Turkey, children should be prepared.

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Daniel Irazola / @dirazola de Durango Bizkaia

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Daniel Irazola / @dirazola de Durango Bizkaia

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I think it's a fantastic tool, but we have to work on giving and receiving feedback.

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Peer review is very usefull... till it regards a higher garde og maturity of the involved participants, they must recognise that reviewing does not mean complimenting, and, that constructive, positively ment critic is much more useful as fake complimenting... and if complimenting (with and without reason) "social attitude", I am skeptical in a true and large development of peer reviewing... I hope, we will achieve soon the critical mass to "transform" the population on a higher level of responsability and maturity in facing facts and problems as the first step to fix and solve them.

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I think peer review is useful both for students and teachers. Sometimes I use peer review. It helps students understand what they should improve or why they get higher or lower grades.

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Peer review can be very useful as a student activity.!

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I'm working with a group of non-formal education. Content management systems in which high school web site content. raseiniugimnazija.lt
In 2012. Lithuania became the best school website. Work organizing the project method. Students snapping, filming, film, writing articles ... At the same time they are planning to share the roles, cooperate, assume responsibility, participate in school activities. Together with the students and the school administer http://goo.gl/gBuPWo Facebook page created school activities reflecting the persistence of the high school video youtube channel http://goo.gl/jj9ihO
The students enjoy this activity.

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I use IT tools in some lessons. My students take part in different projects. We use Glogster, prezi.com, animoto, thinklink. I think it is a good way to present result of their job and practise work. This course helped to understanding for my how I should planning my lessons and how I should development and improving my teaching process. Thank you.

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This presentation is very interessing to have a new aedias as well as to get new experiences.

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I totally agree that peer observation can be a valuable tool and that synergy can create added value. Best example: this course!

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Good idea how to obtain feedback

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I don't often use peer review with my students but I think it would be useful and contribute to a more mature approach to learning.

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I use peer assessment during research action activities in CLIL lessons. It's really useful to improve our lesson plans and make our action in class more effective.

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Peer-reviews overall are truly useful. That's at least my point of view. There is no better way to understand where you're going - peer to peer feedback help even more then the teacher-student response, because it's less stressful at the very least

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I may regret that I wasn't been taught to use this approach earlier.

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I have used peer review in class, in order to allow for pupils to provide feedback on each other's work and I have found out that pupils value very much their peers opinion, so this makes them work harder and produce better results. However, peer review as professional development is something completely new to me. I feel I will need to put an effort on both providing and accepting peer reviewing constructively.

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I am beginning to realize that peer review really does whatever they say in the video that it does, especially what they say in the summary at the end of the video.

I have done some peer review and also received some. To make it more effective and easier, especially for beginners in the activity, it would be a good idea to make a number, not a large one, of questions to be answered by the review. Not everything has to be reviewed, especially not at the beginning. And peer review skills also have to be practiced and developed, just like any other skill.

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I use peer -review constantly in training which support. Of course I use with my students .

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I agree totally. Peer -review is a practice work of the colleague is not even common among peers in different professions, but become vital among us teachers. I see it is essential, helps deepen the theme, to be critical, to be objective, to be realistic, to be rigorous, to go to the fundamental aspects, Although difficult to be impartial before a work colleague, should be based on honesty and willingness to co prosper and succeed. I believe this practice

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Totaly agree though it is sometimes difficult to be objective when it comes to evaluation rather than observation...it's a good job that having to rate a peer's work is hardly ever necessary outside an academic or mooc context. As Leandra is pointing out, peer review and teaching observation has been common practice in Uk - and in the Efl field especially - for years Unfortunately, in comparison, there's a long way to go here in Italy, from this point of view: our classes look more like gardens...'walled' against outside visitors...! #fcscourse I rely on peer correction a lot with students as a learning strategy: having a go and learn step by step correcting each other and debating (and chatting) is a lot more fun than having the teacher explaining or woking on your own. Fun matters!

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Totally agree. The feedback you receive from peer-review is going to be the prime matter to get your work better and show yourself and others how far you can go. #fcscourse

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Irini, Greece

Although no one can deny the value of peer - review I would like to express my belief that it is an extra skill that needs to be taught. Judging from my students I believe that although few of them would be able to perform it right now, things can improve given time and guidance. This appears to be true ven for us , teachers,

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I think Peer review and cooperation are the key words.I sometimes deliver sts quizes to each other to control and fill the blanks with a colorful pen. Of course after that,I control again. Besides this, We discuss the performances of groups .They love such activities because In my opinion,they feel that they have power ,which is necessary to learn new things.

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Peer review is constructive and creative.

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I believe in peer reviews and the power of it when the group works well together. I have tried it on myself in the UK, it was part of our daily assessment together with the tutor 's feedback.We worked on a collaborative base among 5 teachers from different countries in Europe

Unfortunately, here in Italy I haven't found this sort of mentality for teaching development because observing is perceived as judging rather than improving together. So I just gave up even though I know the importance of it.

With my students I use correction in pairs and class feedback at the end of a task as a way to give tips (consigli) to a particular student in order to progress faster or to point out his/her improvement. However, I do monitor strictly the flow of the peer reviews in order to avoid to use it against each other(my students are very young and sometimes spiteful )

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Peer-review is a tool for peer interested in getting feedback from colleagues through homework assistance and review lesson plans. I use peer-review and the evaluation strategy among students.

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I think it is an enriching experience and can develop the critical capacity of students and teachers. I think students should comment and help to 'remake' the work of others, promotes collaborative work, a very enriching experience. At my classes, I promoted the constructive comments of colleagues on presentations of work, but in the next school year, I will dedicate more time to this strategy.

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I never thought peer review as such a useful tool. I realise that in order to make a good review you need to have an insight of the work or you realise the knowledge you have on a topic. Ofcorse is a great collaborative tool!!

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Svetlana. Latvia. I think that it is one of the good tools to teach our students to learn from each other and to be not alone with their work,to involve somebody else in creating new ideas,discussing views, getting knowledge not only from the teacher but from others too. It could be interesting to try it in my lessons.

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I really think that peer review is a very important strategy to motivate students / teachers.We all have the need to be assessed by people that we respect, smart people who will help us to evoluate.Peer review is about students or teachers. I have a question: if students of the same class assess each other ideas, is this a peer review or it must be somebody we don't really know? According to the video, yes it is. But my question also is: "what about if students dont know very well the subject that they assess?" How we can accept peer review if we don't know their qualifications? Do you suggest some ideal conditions for a succesful peer -review, for example they must have a difference of age or whatever? Thnx for your reply!

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In my opinion ,peer-review is good way to motivate pupils for practicing better performance.

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I think that peer review is a great tool for feedback if the people who take part in this are open to conversation and to recieve any contribution from others

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Peer assessment among students is a very important part of the learning process, but the students must take part in the discussion on the learning objectives (in terms of skills, contents etc). This is, for example, a very essential part of the CLIL work, and that's why I think that CLIL is a good way to introduce students and colleagues into "Future Classroom Scenarios". Of course, assessment criteria has to be set clear, according to the objectives, which is why the students should be involved at all stages.

As for peer observation/review among colleagues, it's a useful practice for feedback and I wish we had more chances to do it, in a more formal way, rather than simply discussing... In CLIL we use action-research techniques which are actually effective, but in everyday classes it's not so easy. There aren't co-presence classes anymore so peer review is left to spontaneous initiative rather than being organized formally.

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I think it is very useful and teaches students to be serious about their work. It also helps to improve work if the comments are meaningful. Doing a peer review requires deeper understanding of the subject or form so it has a positive influence on the process of learning.

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I try to use peer review in my class to share ideas and to improve critical assessment. I worked as a special need teacher and I was in the classroom with colleagues teaching Italian, history and geography which I teach now to my class. Observing other collleagues teaching my subjects I learnt a lot by them and I thought about my teaching style. I think that could be important to have some experiences shared with colleagues that can observe me and can give me feedback about my lessons. In the class I try to have a feedback also from my students about the activities, but sometimes it can be difficult for them to give the feedback in an objective way. It's hard for them not to think about the fact that at the end you are evaluating them...

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I do agree that it is not only reviewing but learning at the same time because it involves a lot of reflection. I always look for peers' opinions and advice on my work as a teacher and in my experience it is amazing how many things you can reconsider and improve with other people's help, even very small things like spelling mistakes that I wasn't able to detect in spite of reading a hundred times, probably because I had in mind the correct word and didn't notice the difference. I prompt students to give some review of my activities as a teacher to ask them what wasn't effective and what they would like to change and how. To be honest, between colleagues, you have sometimes to be careful since some people don't like their work to be discussed but if we make more use of it in the classroom and make students get used to it as a normal learning activity we may have better adults.

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I think I could really use peer-review in my classroom. I also think, that students often use harsh words when they review each other's work, but that is a process as well. I would rather teach them that and let them review their work. I really think I can incorporate it a lot in my classroom in the future. We already use it among my colleagues, but we can use it more.

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I like tu use peer-review, but students don't often feel confortable with it:

- Even if provided with a rubric, they often don't feel confident they can give a constructive feedback.

I try to confort them; they just need to provide the perspective of an external reader. Is the text understandable? Are the arguments convincing?

- Students do usually provide much harsher comments than teachers. One have to remind them to be constructive and value other's effort

- It's not straightforward how to quantify (and even whether to use it) in the final mark

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I always try to use peer review in my classes and it is very effective for the students' learning process.

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It is very useful indeed. I have been doing peer observation and peer review with my colleagues in a private language school for a few years now. It was stressful in the beginning but now everybody got used to it.

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I've heard about peer review between teachers in a last year course, but I 've never used it in real life. I think that this process can be very creative and constructive.

I am going to use peer review among pupils next week and I found Adil's notes very helpfull. Thank you Adil.

I announced my pupils how they are going to work. Since then, I believe that they work more responsible.

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In my School Art Lessons peer-review as a student activity is very important and is a part of every students artwork activity.

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I completely agree with Luisella, she described very well the situation in Italy. I trust in peer review as a professional development and as a student activity too.