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Students teaching students
I am very impressed with the way Guildford County School fosters peer collaboration in their music technology club. Children learn very naturally from one another, and as this msuic director from Guildford say, 'everybody wins'. Similarly, I encourage student teaching through my Music and Keyboard in the classroom course (free sample downloads at www.musiceducationworld.com). In this general music course desinged for KS3, Students who play an exercise particularly well may be granted ‘teacher’ status for that exercise. This allows them to browse the class and assess others. Students love this part of the course and I have been delighted with how seriously they undertake it. This creates opportunities for higher level learning, and for me to observe their interactions closely. I aim to give every student the opportunity to be a student teacher and thus create opportunities for all students to develop student leadership and responsibility.
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I feel sure there must be many schools up and down the country doing superb work with students teaching students. What is not mentioned on the video clip is just how much the parents are also on board. Clearly one has to ask permission for one to one teaching to happen but they give such positive feedback that it is very heartening! We are now extending this work to embrace our work with the feeder schools, and that has proved very "cool" ! Especially when I take out all 135 of the Boys choir! I would be interested to hear from anyone who may have managed to get similar schemes up and running.