Teachers! HOW to organise peer-to-peer learning in the classroom. This innovative method works!

Описание: Teachers: This is for you! Rob’s Learning Tree is a peer-to-peer teaching method especially developed for use in schools.

Have you ever wished you could clone yourself in the classroom? I have!

My story begins with a dilemma. At the start of the new school year, even after 44 years of teaching, I found myself stumped. When my grade 4 art classes came back to school for in-person learning after nearly two years of COVID lockdowns, I noticed during their first few weeks that their concentration levels, as a group, were scattered and unreliable. I was seeing a new phenomenon.
A post-COVID-lockdown phenomenon. 1-on-1 there was no problem, but in groups of 4, or 5, or more, they seemed all over the place when I was trying to introduce the lesson, demonstrate techniques with materials, explain equipment safety, share art tips, or explain learning goals.

What to do? In this video, find out what I did, and see how you too could use this simple and effective teaching method in your classroom.


PICTURE CREDITS:

Student artworks by students of classes 3 and 4 at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland, during art lessons with Rob the Art Teacher.

SOUND:

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VIDEO:

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This video uses footage from education documentation video “Erasmus+ Mobility, Design Process & Creativity Workshop” (November 2021), by Eleni Magaliou.

THANKS:

Special thanks to Class 4 (2021-22) at The American Elementary School in Gdynia for collaborating in the first trials of "Rob's Learning Tree" and subsequent peer-to-peer teaching experiments.

Specjalne podziękowania dla klas 4 (2021-22) w Amerykańskiej Szkole Podstawowej w Gdyni za współpracę przy pierwszych próbach „Rob's Learning Tree” i późniejszych eksperymentach nauczania peer-to-peer.

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Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His public service includes periods as a senior manager of arts development and as a Council member (governance) with New Zealand’s arts council. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.