WAP: Student as a Tutorial revised

 October 31, 2019

I feel students in my  Kindergarten classroom are learning from each other by modeling and teaching a skill.  Alan November says, "Students teaching students is a powerful method for building, learning, and driving creativity and innovation" (26). The students are practicing caring and helping one another and owning their learning. The book "Who Owns the Learning" says, students are lucky enough to have the right friends who can ask them for help in order to own their academic success. The students have to do their own work in the learning process alongside the teacher being the facilitator.  

My teaching philosophy in this tutorial is it is important for the children to experience what they are learning. In agreement with Alan November, in order to have a substantial learning experience, they must be willing to do the work, to teach each other, and demonstrate to the teacher what they have learned (25). I feel the children need to learn hands-on by trying out the activities themselves. In my tutorial, the students are demonstrating their own skills of how to do gross motor activities such as how do you go down the slide the correct way and how do you hop on one foot.

My classroom problems are how to do classroom assessments, how to communicate with parents, and how to involve the students in the tutorial. My solution was making videos of the solution by recording how the student would be the teacher to their peers. I would assess if they could demonstrate the skill by watching and observing the video. I researched this solution by getting ideas from other blogs and reading in the textbook "Who Owns the Learning" by Alan November. These ideas sparked an interest in how I can make videos for assessment and show parents what their children are learning in the classroom. The documentation of the pictures and videos are down below.

These pictures are demonstrating how to go down the slide and how to hop on one foot.

I would take the cue from the students about what they are interested in learning and demonstrating. These children were so proud of their videos and were excited to show their Mom what they could do.

This is the documentation video of a student hopping on one foot. The student can model to their peers by teaching them how to hop on one foot. This is also a good assessment tool to show parents, to post on a classroom blog, and to refer to when teachers are filling out progress reports for parents.

Here is another example of a student demonstrating how to go down the slide the correct way.