Embracing the challenges of peer teaching

Peer teaching is an educational and creative approach where students who are not professional teachers teach their peers and learn from each other (Arisoy, 2021; Rahman et al., 2022). Both student-teachers and student-learners have the advantage of having similar backgrounds, such as classmates or course mates and with similar age, thus leading to easier interaction in learning. In addition, the student-teacher who is usually a senior or advanced student who takes on a limited instructional role helps to facilitate the learning of their peers as they are not expected to teach and present new material as they are not professional teachers (Stigmar, 2016; Rahman et al., 2022).