Hi Leo, I ran a similar program for 3 years. I taught a course for college students training to be primary school teachers. Local teachers would send us learning objectives and my students developed lesson plans. Then they taught the lessons to the students from our local schools. My students got experience, the local schools enjoyed the collaboration and their students had a unique science experience.
A full description is here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_as_collaborative_writing_tools_in_science_education Shorter summary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9-CNlIqsY And all of the lesson plans that the students developed are here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools My students were as you say "small teachers". I learned a few important lessons: 1. Teams of 3 students work well to develop and teach the younger students - if one student is ineffective or ill, the school students still have a good lesson and the teachers at the school will ask you to come back. 2. Brief lessons work well - 20 minutes on a topic is good for kids ages 6 through 9. 3. I used 6 stations and the young students rotated through the program - so 2 hours total and no time for boredom. 4. My students put everything they needed in a box; they did a trial run of the entire activity in the classroom before trying it with kids. Everything needed went back in the box. 5. 20 of my students could very easily handle 60 or more young students. We had a lot of fun, but because of staffing changes I no longer offer the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are on Wikieducator. It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy. Declan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
