Steller Secondary School

While you are at Steller, you may want to take the opportunity to plan and teach your own class. Students and other members of the community are encouraged to teach classes in subjects they are interested in, knowledgeable about, and think others will benefit from. Some of the classes taught over the years have been:

Hitchcock Films
Fictional History
Russian Literature
Euclid Geometry
Knitting
Ultimate Frisbee
History of the Irish Conflict
Italian, German and French Languages

As you can see, there is quite a variety. Elective credit is earned for taking or teaching a peer taught class, but academic credit is available if you keep a portfolio of your work to be reviewed by staff members.

Peer Taughts are lots of fun, but they also involve hard work. To get your class approved, you have to flesh out your class idea into a teaching plan, find a teacher sponsor, fill out the Peer Taught Proposal form, and present your class at a staff meeting. Some students use an SDL to prepare their materials for a peer taught. One staff meeting is set aside each quarter to review the peer taught proposals for the coming quarter. If your class is approved, you will work with your staff sponsor to iron out some of the kinks of teaching as you go along.

Have you taught or taken a peer taught? What was it like?

I’m taking Fun with Science. We’re doing fun experiments, but it’s not as much of a learning class.
Jeanne, 9th

I took Russian Lit and I liked it because the teacher had a lot of passion for the subject and obviously liked it a lot. The cons would probably be that sometimes her authority was abused.
Melissa, 9th

I’ve taken and taught peer-taught classes, and I think they are one of the best parts of the Steller program for both teachers and students.
Danae, 12th

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