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(Unit 6) Topic 2: Student-Led Learning

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Peer-Led Learning 

One ironic, but important result that student-led learning creates is in the collaboration between peers. 

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Allowing for student-led learning often creates an atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration by default. This is in large due to the collective curiosities of members of the classroom. Students of all ages in all types of classrooms are able to come together to communicate their interests and explore their curiosities about certain subjects. A group of children can present an idea and then build upon it in different ways until they reach the point of needing further assistance or instruction. At this point they will often rely on the strengths of their peers to problem solve or test theories.
  
Teachers can use cooperative peer learning to enhance the lessons that are presented. This often teaches children to exercise critical thinking and to scaffold their collective knowledge for the greater good of the task at hand. This peer learning also benefits English Language learners and students with executive functioning difficulties.       

Here is an example of peer learning:

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