The benefits of peer teaching included:

• Having real experience teaching a module that would directly relate to what I may teach in the future.
• Trying a lesson plan and seeing how the different aspects either help or hinder the experience.
• Receiving feedback from peers on both the experience and the way I personally taught them.
• Improved communication of the lesson plan.
• I was able to learn new ideas from peers for other lesson plans and approaches to education in the art classroom.
• I was able to see the scope of the opportunities for integrating other subjects into the elementary art classroom.
• I was exposed to new mediums and provocation techniques which I can use in the classroom.

How you could incorporate peer teaching into the Elementary Art classroom:

• Have the students teach their peers about their culture and the art that it involves.
• Network with other art teachers to peer teach throughout the year to talk about ideas.
• Have the students talk to each other about their ideas.
• Put students in groups or pairs when working on projects so they can bounce ideas off each other and the stronger students can support the less confident students during projects.
• Have students ask each other for help.