When I decided to do base my project around helping younger students, I wanted to find a way to explain things to children. What I tended to do before when I helped other peers was to either teach the concept really fast or just give the peer the answer rather than explaining how to derive the answer. That’s when I decided to do some research on how to properly teach. I did this by researching the question, “what are the benefits of peer teaching?”. I found out through my research that peer tutoring is a two-way process and it is equally beneficial for the tutors and the learners. (Ali et al., 2015). I also found out that peer teaching wasn’t just about teaching it was about communication, trust, and motivation. Peer teaching was found beneficial because students are more comfortable asking questions to their peer tutors than with their teachers (Baiduir, 2017).

 

After doing my research I started to see how this was all true. At first, students didn’t feel a connection to me since I was a stranger to them, but after a while, they started to open up and ask questions about there homework. I saw them become more and more eager to learn what they didn’t understand. I saw them improve in their math skills one a fellow peer was stuck and I was busy teaching another student they immediately starting helping their peer. From my experience, I saw that peer teaching bonds students more every single time they help each other.