Here's a plan for a lesson on PEE that proved successful with a Year 9 class.
Part one
1. I put anonymised student work from a PEE homework assignment on the IWB. I chose work with easily identifiable mistakes that many in the class were making, and made sure to choose work of varying standards.
2. As a class we then whole-class peer assessed the work using a criteria contained on handouts given-out in a previous lesson. As a final question, I asked the class to decide which was the best PEE, and explain why.
Part two
1. I asked the students to re-read one of their homework PEE paragraphs, and improve it using the criteria on their handout as a check-list.
Part three
1. Students exchanged their paragraph with a partner. They then peer assessed each other's work using the criteria on their handouts, awarding each other a mark for each point they'd successfully addressed.
2.I then asked the students to explain to their partner why they'd lost points. (This worked surprisingly well. The students really cared about losing marks, and wanted to know why they'd lost them. And they seemed to enjoy taking on the teacher's role of explaining what their partner had done wrong. Careful though of partners who award points too generously.)
Part four
1. I then asked students to raise their hands if they'd got a full seven points, then six, then five - but no lower than that.
Part five
1. I then asked students to improve their paragraphs again taking account of their partner's comments.
