Speaker
Jaroslav Šmahel
(Charles University)
Description
The Learning Using Mentors (LUM) method delegates part of a teacher's authority to gifted students who act as mentors. Mentors lead group work, offer tutoring, and play crucial role in creating and grading tests. This contribution summarizes the results of four years of experimental use of this method in upper-secondary physics classes. Semi-structured interviews with both mentors and their peers, along with questionnaire investigations, highlight several benefits of the LUM method, including its motivating power for gifted students, reduced fear of physics and easily accessible help for “non-mentors” or closing language gap between students’ everyday language and physics terminology.
| Education level | Age 15-18 (Secondary education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Other |
| Research focus | Innovative instructional strategies and pathways |
| Research method | Mixed method (qualitative & quantitative) |
| Organizing preference criteria | Research focus |
Authors
Jaroslav Šmahel
(Charles University)
Petr Kácovský
(Charles University)
