Learning With Peers And Groups More Effective

In a school children belonging to the same class are in almost the same age group by a variance of about 8-10 months. But it is found that not all these children have the same learning capacity.

Some are fast learners while the others are slow. A few children may be good at math while others at languages. Majority of the students may be average with a few below the average and some above this average. The teachers need to find out the capacity of each student.

Then once this is done they can be classified into different groups. The smart or the above average students can be made the group leaders and assigned the task of teaching some students who are below average.

This can be done via playing some group games or some discussions or question and answer sessions under the guidance of the teacher. This way the concepts can be easily learned by the below average students too.

The smart students grasp the concepts fast and they can then help the tutor to teach the other students too. this will also give them develop their leadership qualities. In a school the students need to learn many other things other than just the academics.

It is such situations that give them chances to hone other kinds of skills which will be helpful in their life in the future.

A teacher may not be able to give individual attention to a group of 40-50 students always. Assigning this kind of tasks to some students can also help the teacher and also the students. This makes the teaching and the learning process easy.

Group learning teaches the concepts to all in a general way but some students need individual attention. Such kind of classification into smaller groups headed by one of the smart student may give scope for such students to get individual attention in the areas they are weak.

The learning capacity of all the students can increase and each student can learn a lot of concepts during their school days which will be helpful in their future life.