1 - Getting Started ~5 mins
You are reflecting today on your ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection Draft. A list of polite comments is not peer review. A draft that leaves the room identical to the one that came in is not a revision either.
You will judge a partner's reflection against four criteria, name the one change that would most improve it, then take their feedback and rewrite your own draft before the period ends. That revised version is ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection v2.
2 - Key Terms ~5 mins
Three terms you will use for the rest of this period:
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Peer review | A structured judgement against named criteria, with comments the author can act on. You will run this on a partner's ALT 3 draft and receive the same on yours. | Four criteria, a level on each, a line-level comment, then one priority change |
| Depth of reflection | Going past what happened into why it mattered and what it showed about you. This is the criterion most drafts undercook; surface story is not enough for ALT 3. | A disagreement while choosing an approach that reveals how you respond when your idea is challenged |
| Revision | Changing the draft itself, not filing the feedback for later. v2 must differ from the draft that came into this room. | Draft said we disagreed while choosing an approach; v2 names what it showed about how you listen under pressure and what you will try next time |
3 - Peer Review and Redraft ~35 mins
Open your partner's ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection Draft the way your teacher set up access (shared link, side-by-side screens, or the printout on the desk). Work the four criteria one row at a time: clarity, evidence, depth of reflection, and transferable-skill range. Every judgement below the top level needs a comment that points at a line, not the whole piece. Finish by naming the one change that would most improve their reflection.
When both of you have finished, hand the review over in plain form: use the Copy control on the completed review if it is there, or write the four levels, your line comments, and the one priority change on a note and give that to your partner before you touch your own draft. Then switch to your own draft. Take the one change your reviewer named and revise the reflection so that change is visible on the page. Disagreeing is allowed; ignoring is not. Save the revised version as ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection v2 in your Digital Portfolio under Strand 2.1 / ALT 3. Underneath the draft, in the same artefact, add three short lines: the one change your reviewer named, what you changed because of it, and any feedback you decided not to take and why. This v2 feeds the ALT 3 checkpoint and later Portfolio in Action work.
This is an ALT 3 checkpoint: peer feedback received and acted on. The draft that leaves this room has to be different from the one that came in.
ALT 3 peer review
4 - Think About It ~10 mins
Talk these through with the person beside you for a few minutes, or sit with them quietly:
- Which of today's four criteria was hardest to judge honestly on someone else's work, and which was hardest to hear about your own?
- Strand 2.2 will ask you to generate and reflect on feedback from a real workplace. What from today's peer review will you carry into that?
Before you leave this step, open ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection v2 in your Digital Portfolio and add two short lines: which part of receiving feedback you still find hardest, and why that matters before work experience. That note is part of the same Strand 2.1 / ALT 3 artefact, not a separate file.
5 - What You Covered ~5 mins
Today you:
- Reviewed a partner's ALT 3 draft against clarity, evidence, depth of reflection, and transferable-skill range
- Named one priority change and handed over a usable review
- Revised your own reflection into ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection v2, with a short note on what you took and what you left
- Connected this feedback habit to the workplace reflection coming in Strand 2.2
Optional stretch: reread one paragraph of v2 aloud. If a sentence collapses when spoken, tighten it before the next ALT 3 lesson.
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