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Teaching Students by Having Students Teach: Dealing with the ‘Problem’ Sections of a Course
Author(s) -
Bohmbach Karla G.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9647.00083
Subject(s) - creativity , hebrew , course (navigation) , mathematics education , teaching method , unit (ring theory) , turnaround time , psychology , pedagogy , engineering , history , classics , operations management , social psychology , aerospace engineering
The author describes a positive turnaround that occurred in working with both the Prophets unit of her Hebrew Bible course and the Paul unit in her New Testament course. She initiated this turnaround by challenging the students to take over the teaching of those units through small group presentations. The emphasis on length and creativity in these presentations prompted some exemplary work on the part of students. And students now identify these units as both the most memorable of the course and where their most effective learning takes place.