Managing a Workshop Assignment
A Workshop Assignment is more complex than an ordinary assignment. It involves a number of steps or phases. These are
With the assessment elements set up the teacher will normally submit a small number of example pieces of work. These are practice pieces for the students to assess before preparing their own pieces of work. However, before the assignment is made available to students, these example pieces should be assessed by the teacher. This provides the students with not only examples for the assignment but also specimen assessments on those examples.
The submission of example pieces of work by the teacher is optional and for certain assignments may not be appropriate.
When a student submits a piece of work the teacher can, if desired assess that work. This assessment can be incorporated into the student final grade. These assessments, if they are required, can take place either during the submission phase of the assignment or after the submission deadline.
If the assignment incorporates peer assessment, students who have submitted work are shown other students' work to assess. When they have made an assessment their peer can see that assessment (but the other student cannot comment on it.) The teacher, however, can, if desired, grade the assessment and that score is taken forward towards the student's final grade.