- This activity keeps students present and paying attention, It also ensures students aren’t talking over each other.
- It’s an extremely useful technique when students find a topic dull or boring.
- Co-Teaching Activity:
- Create an even number of student groups (or an odd number of groups if you, the instructor, want to participate as your own group).
- Groups as small as two work well in this activity.
- It’s more important that there are an even number of groups than it is for groups to have the same number of students.
- Assign a specific topic for each group to learn.
- Each group must be responsible for distinct topics.
- Pair groups together after they’ve had time to learn their topics.
- Paired groups take turns teaching each other about the topic they covered.
- Following the pair teaching, have pairs report what they learned from the other group to the class.