Looking Together at Student Work

by Tina Blythe, David Allen, Barbara Schieffelin Powell

This updated third edition provides teachers and administrators with strategies and resources for examining and discussing student work, such as essays, math problems, projects, artwork, and more. The authors describe two ways of looking together at student work—The Tuning Protocol and The Collaborative Assessment Conference—including how to choose work to present and examples of groups using each protocol. This new edition also offers suggestions for addressing some of the key challenges that emerge when groups first begin to share and discuss student work, as well as guidance for using protocols once groups have progressed beyond the initial stages. This book will be useful to teachers, administrators, teacher educators, coaches, and others who are involved in the work of improving teaching and learning for all students. New for the Third

Genres: Education

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Tina Blythe is a senior developer at Project Zero and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is coauthor of Facilitating for Learning: Tools for Teacher Groups of All Kinds (Teachers College Press, 2015).

Reviews

[Gordon Eldridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow - what a gem of a book! The book includes a set of steps for introducing protocols to the work of teachers, explains the purpose and uses of two simple protocols, gives examples of two schools who have adapted protocols then finally explains the job of the facilitator in a group using protocols.

The two focus protocols have many potential uses and the advice given for facilitators and groups obviously comes from deep experience on the part of the authors with the use of protocols. So many education books pad out a feebly small number of good ideas with endless, repetition and platitudes. This book is the opposite - a concise ( 75 pages), informative little book simply packed with useful information.

[Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Granted, I only skimmed this book, but it doesn't appear to be that useful. A lot of the information seems like common sense, and there didn't seem to be any "aha!" type things. Also, as a first year teacher, I don't think I could use anything in here. Perhaps down the road.

[Nadiene · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great guide to assessing student work using protocols. Having used them in a real situations, they have proven themselves to be extremely useful and helpful.