Gallery Walk

Mode of Instruction: Teamwork/Teacher-Led           Purpose: To share ideas

Objective: To elicit and use evidence of student thinking, students share math authority by explaining understanding and critiquing the work of others. Teacher monitors through circulation and questioning.

Teams display posters or presentations. Students explain and critique as individuals/teams rotate about the classroom. Rotations are completed quietly—Museum Walk—or through discussion—Gallery Walk. If the teacher decides to allow feedback, students provide positive feedback Two Stars and a Wish or Glow and Grow.


  • Teams display posters or presentations.

  • Students explain and critique displayed work.

  • Students rotate to each location.

  • Feedback is given with Two Stars and a Wish or Glow and Grow.

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