Empower Podcast

The speaker finds peer assessment beneficial for students because it allows them to hear feedback from their classmates, who are their age and likely their friends. This is seen as less discouraging compared to feedback from a teacher. The speaker appreciates the 20-minute feedback system, where each person gets 10 minutes to explain their thoughts while their partner takes notes and asks questions. This process helps both students work harder and shows that they care about their learning. The speaker believes this practice should be implemented in all school systems. The speaker also mentions that the information provides examples on how to teach students to do peer assessment effectively. Overall, the speaker views peer assessment as a valuable assessment method. Okay, so the part I'm going to be focusing on for this discussion is the whole part two, which is the peer assessment. Looking over this, I personally find peer assessment one of the best ways to help students learn because when you're teaching, you're so much older than them, especially in that elementary school, like you're so much older than them, so they might not fully understand you the whole time. So I think it's like really helpful when the children are like hearing reviews from their classmates, not only because they're the same age as them, but also because they're probably friends with them. Like elementary school, you're friends with everybody, it seems like. So I think it also helps hearing it from someone that you're friends with, and it doesn't seem as much of a problem, I guess, when you're hearing it from a friend than as a teacher I feel like some students take it like, oh, the teacher just told me to fix this, so I'm doing it wrong, and then they get down on themselves, and it just isn't helpful. I really enjoyed that he set up like the 20 minute feedback system, and how it's like divided into like two minutes each, and that like each person should have 10 minutes per person, and elevator pitch, like they explain what they're thinking, and your partner is taking notes on that, and then your partner isn't asking you questions like, oh, like what does this exactly mean, or how does that work? And then it'll just help, and then this person will answer them, and then you have your feedback, and making sure that you're, not that you understand, making sure that they think that it's a good plan, or understanding, and then your partner will paraphrase what you just told them, and that shows that they truly do understand what you're talking about, and it also, I just think overall, it just makes both students work harder, and it shows that they are learning, and they do care about what they're learning, and I just think it's a great practice for all school systems to be using, so yeah, overall, like this is a really good assessment, and like he even like gives us different examples of how we can teach our students to do this properly, so they're getting the right amount of lesson work out of the teaching.