TT0308: Students as Teaching Assistants

Our school recently had an Academic Center added to it, which means that 7th and 8th grade were added and we are now a school that goes from 7th - 12th grades. We started with the addition of seventh graders and this year is our first year with full grades. Last year, when the 7th grade was added, two of our teachers saw the opportunity for a learning experience for some of our older students. An arrangement for seniors in the high school to serve as teaching assistants to the Academic Center classes would make for a mutually beneficial arrangement. These teachers put together a proposal, sat down with the principal, and made it happen. This year, there are seniors who work as Teaching and Learning Assistants for seventh and eighth grade classes. They meet during seminar blocks on our experiential days, and are otherwise programmed to be teaching in the classes that they are supporting. We had one of their teachers sit down with them as they responded to some questions we were curious about. Below you can read the questions that the students had the option to answer. Listen to the podcast to hear what they had to say! What made you decide to sign up to be a teaching assistant? What has been your favorite part about being a teaching assistant? What has been the biggest challenge of being a teaching assistant? Has anything surprised you? Has the experience made you more or less likely to be a teacher? Why? Are there any changes you would want to make to the program? The post TT0308: Students as Teaching Assistants appeared first on Teacher Tribes.