Peer Teaching / Learning by Teaching

Students teach students - we have tried out this concept in various places as part of the project. Examples are the city tour to memorial places in Babenhausen prepared and carried out by pupils or the workshops on Flamenco and Gardetanz, which were conceived and implemented by pupils - from the objective, the division of the participants, the warming up, the direct instruction and the design of the exercise phases to the final presentation by the students taking part.

Basically, this is peer teaching, a method in which peers impart knowledge or train practically. In the example given, this was done by dancers from various guards' dance clubs, who jointly designed the project and were able to pass on their knowledge to the other participants.

Peer teaching, for example, is playing an increasing role in topics where young people are reluctant to be addressed by adults - for example, young medical students are involved in drug prevention or sex education for young people who, due to their greater age-related proximity, are able to find significantly better access to pupils for sensitive topics.

The project is thus also moving in the direction of learning through teaching, which Jean-Pol Martin developed into an overall pedagogical concept. The method can be used in all subjects, school types and age groups. The necessary penetration and pre-structuring of the learning contents for the student teachers deepens and strengthens the knowledge for the pupil teachers. At the same time further competences are trained - from the ability to plan to the ability to analyse. For this reason, we have strongly involved students in the planning and implementation of the activities during the project.