Tholander, Michael, and Karin Aronsson. "Doing Subteaching In School Group Work: Positionings, Resistance And Participation Frameworks." Language & Education: An International Journal 17.3 (2003): 208-234. Academic Search Premier. Web. 1 Nov. 2011.
This article basically talks about how it is good for students to act like the teacher sometimes, called subteaching. When students can teach what they have learned to their classmates then material is most likely going to be easier to remember in the future. The article also mentions that in these subteaching times, the students will teach in groups or by themselves. A few problems arise when doing these activities such as other students resisting to do what they are told. They feel like the peer "teacher" is not in charge of them so they refuse to participate. This type of group could also be considered collaborative learning because the students had to work together in order to complete their tasks and get full credit.
This idea of subteaching is not very practical. I imagine myself trying to impliment this in a jr high classroom and everything going wrong. There are so many different types of personalities in a classroom and it doesn't seem practical. The shy students wouldn't want to boss everybody around and the controlling, attention needy students would use this to their advantage way too much. Those types of things happen in regular group work settings as well but if everyone is responsible for finishing their own part then things seem to go over smoothly.
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