Can students be teachers or only teachers can teach efficiently? According to a research when students teach to each other, they learn twice as efficient than they learn alone (Whitman, 1988). Peer teaching and learning is described as a peer teacher teaching to students in a similar age groups with the students who are learning (Fink, 2020). In this context, a student becomes a teacher and teaches to their friends or other students at the same age group. It is also done by enabling students to help and teach other during the lessons. Unlike the common belief, students are also good teachers because there are many benefits of peer teaching. When a peer teacher teaches a subject or a lesson, the other students find them fun and enjoyable (Graziano, 2017) because they share the similar values, ethics, and enjoy similar things because they belong in the same generation. The students' prejudice towards the lesson may change positively, they can get motivated by their peers, it promotes cooperation and collaboration, can increase confidence in students and many more (Fink, 2020).It is crucial for teachers to conduct peer-teaching sessions or create opportunities of students to do peer-teaching. There are a couple of ways to include peer teaching in the lessons.
- Setting a Role-play scenario
-Making students give feedback to each other
-Making students team up with a classmate
-Giving students a subject to teach during the class, it can be a mini-presentation
References
Whitman, N. A., & Fife, J. D. (1988). Peer Teaching: To Teach Is To Learn Twice. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 4, 1988. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, The George Washington University, One Dupont Circle, Suite 630, Dept. RC, Washington, DC 20036-1183.
Graziano, K. J. (2017). Peer teaching in a flipped teacher education classroom. TechTrends, 61(2), 121-129.
Fink, S. (2020). Benefits of Peer Teaching, Retrieved from https://www.summertech.net/benefits-of-peer-teaching/
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