Imagine you're playing in a volleyball match. The setter sets up the ball for you and you come in, and slam the ball to the floor. In many ways, peer tutoring is like volleyball. The tutee is the hitter, and the tutor is the setter. In this situation, they are peers that the coach, or teacher, put together to score the point, or get the A+. See, the tutor is always trying to make the tutee better. Most peer tutoring programs have had positive results. Many studies prove them to be cost effective and academically beneficial. However, some might argue it to be a waste of time and not at all effective compared to a teacher. Valley Center schools should create a peer tutoring program because it will help students build communication skills, lead students to a better future career, and expand students' general knowledge.
One of the benefits of peer tutoring is that it increases communication and social skills. The tutee will feel more comfortable learning, listening, and interchanging knowledge with a peer. Working with peers can also feel easier because they will most likely understand the position they are in at school and home. Benjamin Stoddard, author of the article "What is Peer to Peer Tutoring?" writes that "A peer tutor can form examples and relate to a student on an entirely different level than an adult educator". Most of the time this is not because of the adult, but caused by the students' diverse ways to learn the information. Communication is a useful skill that one can benefit from for many years with working in groups, with teachers, in jobs, and in life. The article "Communication Skills" sums up that communication skills are the skills you need to achieve a goal. This article also explains ...
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...to make sure that grades of the tutors don’t slip as they take on more responsibility and that the tutees grades improve as they get this assistance. This has the potential to significantly improve academics with minimal cost to the school.
In volleyball there is a lot of working together and bettering yourself! This is also true in peer tutoring. Peer tutoring is a great program where many learn, many succeed, and many increase their working skills. Several positive results in learning have come from peer tutoring. This process engages all students, teaches half, and re-enforces the knowledge in the other half. Leading students to a better educational career, building up communication skills, and the expansion of general knowledge are all great benefits from peer tutoring. It truly is an amazing program! Remember to always go for the spike!
My experiences with tutoring others has taught me that it satisfies me to help others understand and learn. As you teach others you learn about the different ways you handle situations and solve issues as well. I’ve always been the person that my classmates come up to for help, but it wasn’t till grade 10 until I officially started tutoring math, mainly Pre-Calculus 12. In grade 11, I continued tutoring, but this time I focused on a single individual, and that brought up challenges of creating a suitable relationship, that becomes the foundation for effective learning. This year, I took on a challenge, my teacher asked me to be a mentor towards a student with learning disabilities who was struggling with school. I
Lipsky highlighted the benefits for the peer tutor (pg. 6). She stated, “You probably will improve your abilities to make decisions, think through complex issues, and solve a variety of problems…your communication and leadership skills will grow, as will our feelings of accomplishments and self-confidence. This is an important factor when hiring peer educators. Oftentimes, peer educators are using this time as a refresher. For example, a peer educator may be preparing for the MCAT or the CPA exam, and using their peer tutoring sessions as a vessel to continue their preparation or enhance
Homeschool is a verb is defined as “to teach your children at home instead of sending them to a school” (Homeschool). This means that a child is not taught at a public or private school; But the child is not necessarily just taught at home. Many homeschooling students participate in learning with other homeschooling families. Homeschooling is legal in all fifty states, and in the United States alone, it is estimated that there are between 1.7 and 2.1 million homeschooling students. However, it is hard to know the exact number of these students since some states have different laws and do not require reporting (Frequently). Perhaps in the years to come, states will become more regulated across the board about reporting.
Rather than interacting with other children their age, most of their time is spent with their parents or an adult tutor. Forming close friendships and socializing with other children is vital for the development of your child 's social skills and overall emotional health according to Liza Blau, Everyday Life Magazine. While attending public school student have everyday interactions with adults and most importantly other students. Without everyday interactions with adults, students will have a hard time developing their emotional growth and developing autonomy. A big aspect of public school that you don’t always get, is teaching knowledge that professional teachers have. When a parent decides to teach there student you could make the argument that the student would be receiving a worse education, although no one has a better understanding of their student like a parent would. One very popular idea parents are adopting is to hire a private tutor for their child. Tutors are a great tool parents can use for children, although a lot of parents today aren’t financially sound, therefore parents are unable to afford a private tutor for their children. A struggle parents have is getting the socialization their child needs, since most public school activities are not an option.
If everyone could afford a tutor then those who cannot would most likely have higher SAT and ACT scores. Tutors can teach students tricks on the SAT and ACT. Thes...
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” Why send your children to a school, when they can receive an even better education from the comfort and safety of home? Although many people believe that it is bad for children 's education, homeschooling is actually a better and safer alternative to public and private schools.
It is the tutor’s role within the Life Long Learning sector to support, inspire and guide the learner during their journey - from the beginning through a robust assessment, through the middle while they learn and use the topic, to the end when they are ready to move on to the next stage of their learning – whether this be into a employment, or into further education/training.
I am writing to you today to persuade you to become a peer tutor during your senior year of high school. Peer tutoring certainly is something unique to do. So many of my friends told me to be a service learner but I chose to be a peer tutor and I do not regret this decision. While in service learning you are just delivering stuff around the building, in peer tutoring you actually get the chance to help fellow underclassmen. I think this is one of the best ways to give back to your community. Another reason why I enjoy being a peer tutor is that I get to choose which class I want to tutor in. So you can pick a favorite teacher you have had before and peer tutor there. The third reason I love peer tutoring is that it
It definitely helps because it stops from going to Professor Reese with every problem. It gives us a spot where we can go to someone who is closer to our level. Someone who is a student with us or we have class with. It helps working out problems without bothering someone higher up. It gives us many different levels to work at.
Some kids need a different approach to academics. Schools should provide tutors if the student needs it to help them achieve more goals in the future. Having a tutor will improve a child's confidence in school work. Getting caught up will help the student with school work and maintaining educational success. The help of a tutor will make a student more likely to finish school and graduate. A tutor can help you succeed at your work and make getting a job easier.
Affluent school districts and elite private school mostly discourage the use of tutors and encourage students to struggle through the material. “Working through it builds character,” comments a science teacher when asked about their students getting tutored. “But nowadays they all want the easy A.”
Over the course of this term, I have learned several helpful techniques to incorporate in my own tutoring sessions. I’ve also learned about problems that can arise when tutoring and how to avoid making poor decisions.
Students spend more time with the parents than with the tutor at Kumon since they are only at Kumon for two days of the week, to do their classwork. Those other five days of the week, they are at home with their parents doing their homework. If the students see that their parents does not encourage the children to do their work or is there for support, the students can model the parents and not care about education. This type of parents can give the tutor a hard time because the tutor are trying to give the students the best education that they
Building self-esteem, enhancing student satisfaction with the learning experience, and promoting a positive attitude toward the subject matter are all benefits of collaborative learning. A higher degree of accomplishment takes place as a group because you essentially are a team. An example of this is a sports team. In a collaborative situation it takes every member to do his or her part in order for a situation to have a greater resolution; as where a sports team needs everybody’s individual talent to win a game. In retrospect, as a group; the contributions of our own talents can make the difference between a “win or Lose situation” it gives you a sense of competition, and knowing that you can win as a group; self esteem in one’s self is accentuated. Johnson and Johnson (1989), Slavin (1967). Another benefit to collaborative learning is based on the members of your group. Every individual in the group demonstrates their own input based on where they were born, what nationality they are so on and so on. The benefit of this is that you get a different perspective on things rather than always knowing what you know. You can take information from other cultures and add or apply it to what you already know.
Moccozet, L., Opprecht, W., & Léonard, M. (2009). A Collaborative Training Platform for Peer-Based Co-Construction of Knowledge and Co-Tutoring. International Journal Of Emerging Technologies In Learning, (S3), 40-45. doi:10.3991/ijet.v4s3.1100