Title: How Letting Students Teach Can Lead to Their Best Learning Ever – Wabisabi Learning
Headings: How Letting Students Teach Can Lead to Their Best Learning Ever
How Letting Students Teach Can Lead to Their Best Learning Ever
After all, letting students teach is scary but it’s also a great way for them to learn.
Why Letting Students Teach Works
Step 1: Map Classroom Time
Step 2: Map Non-Classroom Time
Telling students what they did right before getting into constructive criticism is important.
Step 3: Detail Your Expectations
It’s also important that they know to be respectful of peers while they’re teaching. In fact, let them know you will make this an integral part of your evaluation process.
Step 4: Start With Tutoring
Step 5: Assign Teaching Groups
Step 6: Review Groups’ Plans
Step 7: Make Adjustments
Step 8: Assign Individual Lessons
Step 9: Work on Lesson Plans
Step 10: Let Students Teach
It’s crucial to let students teach uninterrupted with one exception, which is time.
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Content: Step 6: Review Groups’ Plans
A week or so before a group is scheduled to teach, you should meet with that group’s members to give them feedback on their plans. Here you can provide tips on how to present the information, and ideas for how they can best engage the students they're teaching. Group members should be asking their “class” questions and should consider using other resources such as handouts, blackboards, maps, and videos. In short, this is about encouraging students to be creative. Step 7: Make Adjustments
Let each group’s students make mistakes while they are teaching rather than interfere with a lesson. After all, your department head doesn’t correct you in the middle of a lesson. However, you should be paying attention to what is working for the “teachers” and their students and utilize your observations to improve future group teaching lessons. Your evaluations should be more focused on specific tips for each student and group rather than on grades.