Description
Verb
Explain
Place in the Hybrid Sequence
- Prepare for Class
- ✔️In-Class
- After Class
Template
Template and Example adapted from “Peer Lessons” in Active Learning by Mel Silberman
Taken October 30, 2019. Copyright Cal State LA.
Students can receive a presentation rubric, their group, and their topic before class.
- Students join a group, which receives from the faculty a topic, concept, or skill to teach others.
- Topics could be “the structure of an effective paragraph.”
- All the topics for a class session would be interrelated. For example, “how to make a claim and provide evidence.”
- Each group designs a way to present or teach its topic to the rest of the class. Groups can:
- Provide visual aids
- Develop a demonstration sketch
- Use examples or analogies to make teaching points
- Hold discussions, run quiz games, role play, or introduce a case study
- Ask questions
- Each group teaches their short lesson (about 10 minutes)
- Students answer follow-up questions from peers.
Example
A faculty assigns a sociology class to develop classroom presentations on four major issues of aging.
- Students form four groups.
- Each group is assigned a major issue.
- Students choose the following formats for peer teaching
- The aging process: A true/false quiz game on facts of aging
- Physical Aspects of Aging: A simulation of aspects of aging
- Stereotypes of Aging: A writing task where students write about society’s perception of the elderly
- Loss of independence: a role play exercise involving an adult child discussing issues of transition with their parent.
Reference
Silberman, M. L. (1996). Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject (1st edition). Prentice Hall.