Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to Be the Experts, Apr/2017

In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board certified teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching. Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners, and frees up the teacher to provide targeted support where it's needed.

Drawing from the author's successful classroom practices, this compelling book will help you

1. Gain a deeper understanding of what meaningful feedback looks like and how it can be used as a tool for learning.
2. Establish a respectful, student-led learning environment that supports risk taking and honest sharing.
3. Teach students to be adept peer strategists who can pinpoint areas of needed growth and move forward with specific strategies for improvement.
4. Develop cooperative student expert groups to help sustain effective peer feedback throughout the year.
5. Use technology to enhance collaboration, streamline the learning and revision process, and strengthen students' digital citizenship skills.

The book also includes extended reflections that express, in students' and teachers' own words, the approach's powerful effect on their practice. Invite students to be your partners in learning, and enrich your collective classroom experience.

About the Author:

Starr Sackstein started her teaching career at Far Rockaway High School more than 14 years ago. She spent nine years as a high school English and journalism teacher at World Journalism Preparatory School in Flushing, New York, where her students ran the multimedia news outlet WJPSnews.com. She is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA) and serves at the New York State Director to JEA to help advisers in New York better grow journalism programs. Sackstein is the author of Teaching Students to Self-Assess: How Do I Help Students Grow as Learners?, The Power of Questioning: Opening Up the World of Student Inquiry, and Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. She blogs on Education Week Teacher at "Work in Progress" where she discusses all aspects of being a teacher and education reform. On Twitter, she co-moderates #sunchat and contributes to #NYedChat. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. She was named one of ASCD's Emerging Leaders Class of 2016.