Apparently, today is the day of confessions (see the most recent Sparksnotes if you aren't sure what I'm talking about)! I must confess that there was a lot I didn't know when I began teaching. "Dangling modifiers, what the heck are those? What do you mean you can't end a sentence with a preposition? You mean, supposibly isn't a word?"
I had to teach myself so much just so I could teach it to students, and through that process I learned a ton! I'm even somewhat of an expert on those things I didn't know before I taught them.
And that's why student-driven instruction is so good for kids. When they have to learn it to teach it, they really know and understand it. Check this out!
Sixth grade students are learning the human body systems from
their peers. Students were assigned a group and system, researched content,
submitted a lesson plan, prepared and are now teaching their classmates.
I have no doubt that these students learned a lot, and that they will retain what they learned. And as an aside, check out that use of student-driven technology!
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