Peer Leadership in the Music Classroom

When I first started teaching middle school general music, I had no idea about how to incorporate peer leadership into my music classroom.  I was comfortable with group work, centers, and whole group teaching, but didn’t know quite how to teach students how to teach each other.  A huge thanks to music educator Chris Judah-Lauder for her guidance, patience, and wisdom in helping me learn the importance of student leadership and teaching me how to use peer teaching in the classroom.  I can’t do this episode without acknowledging what I learned from her in this area because I wouldn’t have known where to begin or how to do it without her!  I’ll refer to this as both peer leadership and peer teaching throughout the episode.  I realize these terms can refer to different things, but in today’s episode, they’re going to refer to the same idea: that of guiding one student in your room to helping or working with another student in the room.

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