Chapter 9 - Instructional Media: Chalkboards to Video - CGISS

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Non-participants should also record at least one point that
the debaters on each side should have made but did not.
Peer Teaching
The Intention
You never really know something until you try to teach it to
someone else.
Each time you step before your class, you marshal a range of
skills and knowledge that, together, enable you to guide students
toward comprehension of the course material. And you have most
likely recognized that in preparing and delivering your course,
face-to-face or online, you have come to master the material in a
way that is different, and superior in some ways, to the mastery
obtained through the role of student.
Any activity that requires your students to modify and broaden
role and performance will encourage active learning.
The Activity
• Teaching a topic
o Help students adjust to this new role by having them teach
to a small group. Three or five students pose less of a
threat and lessen the degree of failure or embarrassment a
student/teacher faces.
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Remind them of all the active teaching and learning
techniques that they could use and give them ample
preparation time. Most students will not have a clue what
you want them to do, so try modeling what you want them
to do in their “teaching” experience.
Instead of choosing topics in the required readings, choose
topics that will supplement the class. This ensures that
students do research on their own.
Select some of the more effective students to teach to the
entire class. You may wish to participate as a student and
ask helpful or follow-up questions that require the student
to extend herself.
Section: Lesson Delivery 84 Chapter 8: Using Active Learning