The power to address many classroom concerns may be sitting, untapped, in the classroom.
Students can be tremendous peer teachers.
They add variety, energy, and sympathetic assistance. Well planned, peer teaching is a powerful classroom tool. Over the last decade, a number of researchers have looked at how to make peer interaction the central way to organize a classroom. The CTL has collected Johnson and Johnson's materials on Cooperative Learning in higher education for your use. The following tips are smaller ways you might gain the benefits of the people power in your class.