Teaching Tip #19

Teacherscribe’s Teaching Tip #19

Ten Risks Every Teacher Should Take With Their Class

2. Let them teach

This one is easy for me.  I do this several times, and it usually goes over really, really well.

The most effective way I use this is when I teach Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist. It is a very short and entertaining read.  So I ask students in my CC 2 class to look it over and choose which of the ten chapters (or ways to “steal like an artist”) they find most interesting.  Once they have completed the Google Doc, I thin divide them up, two or three students per chapter.  Then I give them our lesson plan format (learning target, classroom activities, home work, and evidence of learning) and have them craft a lesson around it.  This always goes over very, very well.