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Dialogic architecture·Medium cognitive demand·20–40 minutes

Gallery Critique

Use common criteria to inspect, annotate and improve visible work in progress.

Knowledge
Evaluative · Metacognitive
Sequence
Deliberate Practice · Independent Judgment
Interaction
High

Use common criteria to inspect, annotate and improve visible work in progress. Gallery Critique is selected when its reasoning mechanism matches an accepted learning requirement and produces evidence a teacher can inspect.

01How the architecture unfolds

  1. Define the learning target and evidence.
  2. Run the Gallery Critique routine with one bounded case.
  3. Capture evidence and identify the next teaching move.

02The work on each side

Teacher moves

  • State the reasoning purpose
  • Monitor one diagnostic feature
  • Respond to the evidence

Student moves

  • Retrieve
  • Apply
  • Explain

03What would count as learning?

  • Students produce an observable response linked to the target

04Across the curriculum

History

Evidence and judgment

Use Gallery Critique to make a historical reasoning move visible.

Science

Explanation and application

Use Gallery Critique to expose how students select and apply a scientific model.