Dear Kim and Declan ,
Thank you very much for your help on this we are doing something a little bit different here , we not only ask the adult college teacher to be the "small teachers" we are also thinking about to involve the actual promary school students ( age 11 around )for them to teach the younger students (like age 9 or the same age with them ) as an old saying goes , the best way to learn is to teach , Declan , do you think , if suppose to let you to do that , any future challenges you might think of ? leo 2011/12/8 Declan <[email protected]> > 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] -- Leo Wong Teacher and teacher trainer -------------------------------------- http://wikieducator.org/User:Leolaoshi <http://www.gem-intl.edu.cn> 机构博客：http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com 个人博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/leolaoshi1 （在努力中） Skype:leolaoshi Malaysia number +006 010 2718251 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids.* -- 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]
