The Student as a Tutorial Desginer

 

As an educator, I believe students would take the role of tutorial designers in lessons such as science experiments for their peers to watch the steps and results of the experiments, or they could create story maps about a book they read and discuss their thought processes and how they developed their story map, students may also work out a couple of math problems and show the steps they used to solve it. When students are working on something that is for more than themselves, and more than a grade, they will see more purpose in it. A lot of students will be stressed about having to "teach" their peers, however, some stress is beneficial because it breaks the student out of their shells. If students are able to create something to help their peers, they are more likely to be motivated to do the work. They will put more effort into creating a tutorial because they want the approval of their work from their peers and to help them succeed as well. Benefits of students becoming the tutorial designer are; a better understanding of the material because they need to know the information to discuss it, better work production, students are more engaged in learning through/with their peers, students create something permanent that they could go back to, students are being more creative and motivated.