WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD The Neighborhood is a special Turn To Your Neighbor series where we invite innovative educators from around the globe to discuss a variety of education topics. In this inaugural post of The Neighborhood, five classroom teachers from across grade levels discuss what happens when students teach each other using video. This strategy […]
Category archives for Social Sciences
In our first post of 2014, Peer Instruction Network member, Mr. George Phillip, describes how he moved from a thoughtful teacher to someone who is innovating in his social studies classroom with Flipped Teaching and Peer Instruction. While his unique twists on Peer Instruction evolved from a 5th and 6th grade classroom, they have implications […]
Last week, we heard from Peer Instruction Network member, Ryan Campbell, who teaches high school history using Peer Instruction. This is the second part in his 2-part series on how to adapt PI for use in high school settings. The Ten Non-Commandments for adapting Peer Instruction to the high school setting: Part 2 in a […]
Post by Ryan Campbell with an introduction by Julie Schell, June 2012 Many Peer Instruction Network members wonder if PI works in high schools and how. For example, Andrew from Tomball, Texas wants to know – What does PI look like in high schools and member Janet from Falls Church, Virginia asks, how can PI be well-integrated in high […]
As I have blogged about before, Peer Instruction (PI) users continue to express curiosity about whether PI can be used in small classes. Peer Instruction Network members(PINm) such as Hank, who teaches physics at Sweet Briar College in classes sometimes less than 10 students and Rich who teaches management at Bryant and Stratton college and […]
Late on a Friday afternoon, I stood in front of 30 exhausted graduate students in a social science course I teach at Teachers College, Columbia University. Knowing that I had the perfect thing to perk them up, I excitedly informed them it was “time for a clicker question!” As they ruffled through their book bags […]
