What is...Peer Teaching?

Peer teaching involves a learner with advanced knowledge (tutor) providing instruction and guidance to a less familiar learner.

Peer teaching can take various forms, including surrogate teaching (higher year group teaching lower groups), proctoring programs (one-to-one tutoring by slightly ahead peers), cooperative learning (small groups with each member teaching others), and reciprocal peer tutoring (classmates tutoring each other).

Key benefits include personalized learning, active learning promotion, increased comfort and openness among learners, shared vocabulary for better understanding, reinforcement of the peer teacher's own learning, team-building, supportive learning networks, greater psychological well-being, social competence, communication skills, higher achievement, and enhanced learning outcomes.