Make progress visible
Help students show what they created, learned, tested, or improved during the sprint.
Guide
Routine #4 — Review Guide
A practical guide for helping students share work, gather useful feedback, inspect evidence, and decide what should improve next.
Best for
- Classroom
- Learning Sprints
- Feedback & Reflection
- Student Teams
- Continuous Improvement
Use During
- Review
- Check-In
- Retrospect
What it helps with
Gather usable feedback
Structure feedback so it becomes evidence for the next decision, not just opinions about the work.
Decide what improves next
Turn review conversations into clearer next steps for revision, learning, or future sprints.
Preview the guide
When to use it
- At the end of a Learning Sprint.
- When students need feedback on work in progress.
- During project demos, gallery walks, critiques, or presentations.
- Before Retrospect so teams have evidence to reflect on.
- When students need practice explaining decisions, evidence, and next steps.
How it works
Name what is being reviewed.
Clarify the work, goal, question, or evidence the group should focus on.
Share the work clearly.
Students show progress, explain decisions, and make the current state visible.
Gather feedback and evidence.
Use a clear structure so peers, educators, or stakeholders respond in ways students can use.
Look for patterns.
Separate isolated preferences from repeated signals, questions, and useful advice.
Choose the next improvement.
Decide what changes now, what waits, and what needs more learning or discovery.
Why the Review routine works
Review helps students learn from work while there is still something to do with the feedback. Instead of treating feedback as a final judgment, the routine frames it as information students can use to improve the next move. A strong Review also gives teachers better evidence. Students make their thinking, progress, decisions, and questions visible, which makes coaching more specific and reflection more grounded.
Skills & Alignment
This resource supports communication, collaboration, feedback, reflection, evidence use, and continuous improvement. These are suggested connections, not a formal standards alignment.
IB Learner Profile
- Communicators
- Thinkers
- Open-minded
- Reflective
IB Approaches to Learning
- Communication skills
- Social skills
- Thinking skills
- Research skills
21st Century Skills
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
- Continuous improvement
Inquiry Practices
- Evidence sharing
- Questioning
- Feedback
- Revision
- Reflection
What's included
- A downloadable Review routine guide with prompts and facilitation support for helping students share work, gather useful feedback, and choose the next improvement.
Related resources
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