PPLI Spotlight on Schools Using peer teaching in Transition Year - Flipbook - Page 3
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Spotlight on Schools - Using peer teaching in Transition Year
What are the advantages of doing this kind of project?
This innovative project is guaranteed to engage not only your senior cycle students but also to
provide a model to younger learners of what they will be able to do in 3-4 years.
Other advantages include:
• It allows senior students to deepen their learning by breaking down content to share.
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It helps senior students to reinforce their own learning by instructing others.
• It provides students to opportunities to practice their oral communication and interaction
skills.
• It increases student motivation for learning from the perspective of both peers.
• It increases students’ self-confidence as they suddenly realise that they know more language
then they thought.
• It allows students to interact more freely and openly with their peers.
• It encourages cooperative classroom behaviour.
• It offers leadership opportunities for senior students and model for peers.
知之不若行之
[Approx. trans. ‘True learning
continues until it is put
into action.’]
Xun Zi
Catherine McAullife is a teacher of Spanish and German
and Year Head at Stepaside ETSS, Dublin and a PPLI Associate.
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