[pjdoxopoulos]

Hi,

I have an adults beginners class. We have had two lessons together, and we learned the alphabet and covered phonics in the last lesson. However three out of five students were not present in the last lesson so I will have to cover a lot of the material again so that they can get to grips with the alphabet. I do not want this to be boring for the two students who have already done this so I am planning on using them to help teach the lesson i.e. using them as 'experts' and having them 'peer-teach' (is there a proper term for this? I have just made this one up).

Does this sound like a worthwhile thing to do? I have searched the forums for other threads about similar things but I do not know the actual term for using more advanced students to help others... Or indeed if there is actually a term for it...

Thanks for your help,

PJD