The goal of the gallery walk is for students to share their work (stories/models/results) and get feedback from other groups. After completing a group task, groups will walk around poster or boards arranged around the whole classroom. Students will read others work and leave comments or reflections on others work. If you are running out of time limit the posters students will visit. It is usually more productive and will keep students engaged if you provided some guidelines to this task and limit poster visitation to 2-3 minutes maximum. Here is one example:
Each group has a set of sticky notes equal to the number of posters they will leave feedback. Groups can leave one sticky note per poster with the following feedback:
- Ask for clarification of ideas
- What do you mean by …. ?
- Can you tell me more about …. ?
- Build on or add a new idea
- I want to add to your idea….
- Agree or disagree with an idea
- I agree with ….
- I disagree with ….
After the gallery walk groups will revise their work based on the feedback they received.
Teacher's reflection: "having them [students] write feedback in the gallery walk led to much more engagement in the task"
