Name________________________

Ms. Payne, Instructor

AP World History

AP World History
Peer Teaching Assignment

1. Design an AP World History lesson in small groups based upon requirements

specified on the attached rubric.
2. Prepare all the materials needed to teach the lesson for 118 minutes to your
classmates. This is a TWO DAY lesson.
3. Teach the lesson to your peers in a collegiate manner.

Be sure to think about the following requirements:

 Write at least two questions in your lesson plan to use each day that might be
used to determine the prior knowledge that your classmates possess related
to your topic. Also, write at least five questions you might ask to assess your
classmates’ knowledge as the lesson unfolds. Remember, when teachers ask
students why or to explain their reasoning, understanding increases and
deepens.
 Think about how you will structure your time to cover all content.
 Use hands-on materials and active, concrete instruction during your lesson in
class. Your peers will give you feedback on your lesson.
 While you teach your lesson, consider the following:

a. Your presence: How do you conduct yourself? Do you maintain eye

contact? How do you speak? (Too fast or too slow; clearly). Do you
face the students, or do you talk to the chalkboard? Do you use
repeated phrases such as “um” or “ah”? Do you look confident? Do
you look intimidating? Friendly? Timid? Scared?

b. Your lesson development: Did you capture and hold the interest of
your students? Were the students engaged in the lesson? Were they
busy doing, or thinking, or both? Did the ideas in your lesson flow?
Was the pacing reasonable? Did you try to cover too much or too little
material during the lesson? What was it that the students were
supposed to be able to do? To understand?

c. Your questions: What, if any, questions were asked during the lesson,
and by whom (were any questions asked by classmates)? How many
of the questions were rhetorical or managerial?
 Peer Teaching Rubric
Project 10 6 4 0
Motivation  Connects to prior Three out of One or two No
knowledge four elements are motivation
 Captures student interest elements are present for learning
 Relates to the objective present
 Gives students a reason for
learning
Teaching  Covers all related Two out of One or less
Method information three elements of
 Is neatly put together elements of effective
 Has few to no grammatical effective instruction
errors, spelling mistakes, instruction are present
etc. are present
Practice,  Assesses the objective Mostly Somewhat No
Application,  Enables the teacher to effective effective assessment
Assessment evaluate how well the assessment
student understands the
objective
Materials Uses concrete information, Uses two Uses one No materials
materials, pictures, video clips,
etc.
Lesson Plan All required elements included Most Some No lesson
in sufficient detail (6) required required plan (0)
elements elements
included (4) included (2)
Portion /50
Total
Presentation 25 18 9 0
Time Lesson and end product take 36-48 25-35 Less than 25
up 49-59 minutes BOTH DAYS. minutes on minutes minutes on
the second second day the second
day day, or did
not make it
to second
day
requirement
Engagement All presenters are engaged in Presenters Presenter is Presenter
the activity. are unsure of did not
somewhat entire present
engaged activity
Portion /50
Total
PROJECT /100
TOTAL
COMMENTS: