Week 2 In class activity-Gallery walk

• What is a gallery walk?

https://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/gallerywalk/what.html

Gallery Walk is a discussion technique that gets students out of their chairs and into a mode of active engagement. The advantage of the method is its flexibility and the variety of benefits for students and instructor alike. A Gallery Walk can be conducted with computers (a "Computer Run"), with pieces of paper on tables, or with posted chart paper. It can be scheduled for fifteen minutes (a "Gallery Run") or for several class periods. For students it's a chance to share thoughts in a more intimate, supportive setting rather than a larger, anonymous class. For instructors, it's a chance to gauge the depth of student understanding of particular concepts and to challenge misconceptions.

• What instructions do students need? Why? (classroom management considerations)

1. Generate questions

2. Post questions

3. Provide students with a brief introduction on why you are implementing gallery walk.

4.the important components of that evaluation.

5. Group Students and Assign Roles

6. Begin Gallery Walk – Direct teams to different charts or "stations." Upon arriving at the station, each team writes comments for the question posed at the station.

7. Rotate to New Station and Add Content

8.Instructor Monitors Progress – As groups rotate, the instructor nurtures student discussion and involves all group members.

9. Return to Starting Point – Teams continue to review the answers already contributed by previous groups, adding their own comments.

10. Report Out – In the "Report Out" stage, the group synthesizes what has been written about their original discussion question.

11. Gauge for Student Understanding – did students seem to readily understand? What did they find difficult and how can I adjust my teaching to accommodate students?

• Why is a safe learning environment essential to the success of a gallery walk?

Because it's anonymous for the person who answers the question and

students who post comments, also it's mutual learning from peers the

similarities, differences and if miss any information who needs to include

when back to the questions students posted.

• What are some challenges when implementing a gallery walk?

• How might we prevent such challenges from occurring?

1. students response: Lack of student participation

Possible Responses: gently bring students back on task by asking questions like "Your group seems to think ..... about this issue. How would you rephrase or summarize what has been discussed so far?" or "What similarities and differences do you see between the responses you are giving at this station and what was summarized at the last station?"; enact formal group evaluation that counts for a grade; reduce the time at each station, forcing students to spend their time on addressing the task at hand.

2. Resistance to discussion methods: Possible Response: emphasize how critical thinking, team building, and collaborative interaction are much sought after job skills; commiserate - agree that thinking can be hard work; stress the need for collegial, when preparing students for a Gallery Walk stress the need for good listening skills and welcoming responses; emphasize that group leaders have a responsibility to solicit responses from ALL group members.

3. Concern over assessment: Possible Response: provide students with an evaluation rubric ahead of time showing that assessment is equitable; assign grades based on individual accountability as well as group grades

Colleague or Department Concerns

Possible Response: Gallery Walk does take time from traditional lecture, but "covering" material is not necessarily equated with students being able to construct meaning and being able to critically evaluate a key concept. Gallery Walk helps embrace these two valued skills. Covering key concepts in greater depth will assure less review being needed later. Possible Response: in large enrollment classes create Gallery Walk "sections" located in separate parts of the room where the same Gallery Walk will be conducted simultaneously.

Material setup: Possible Response: in large enrollment classes create Gallery Walk "sections" located in separate parts of the room where the same Gallery Walk will be conducted simultaneously.

Cost of materials: a set of markers, poster paper, or whiteboards for one class of 20 would cost around hundred dollars, more for larger classes. Possible Response: for discussion, purposes use pieces of paper on tables rather that post-its; use whiteboards which can be used over again.

The time required to conduct a Gallery Walk: too much class time required for a discussion technique that is hard to assess.

• How might we prevent such challenges from occurring? planning anticipated questions, a budget of the cost if material needs to be used, time and classroom management strategies

• How might we assess a gallery walk?

Gallery Walk can be assessed informally and through more formal evaluation involving oral and written presentations. This section has sample rubrics that can be used for evaluating different aspects of the Gallery Walk, ranging from group participation to the quality of oral and written reports. Feel free to modify these rubrics for the context of your own Gallery Walk.

• How can we modify a gallery walk to a “computer-walk” or an “iPad-walk”?

Ask students to post answers in google classroom as anonymous folder, other students can go into the folder and post comments or questions

For YOUR records, please take a photo

6 C what does it looks like?

my group

other groups