PEER TUTORING Course-1.2.3(1st), Unit-2 Ratna

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PEER TUTORING Course-1.2.3(1st), Unit-2 Ratna Biswas (Asst. Prof. in History) MEANING OF PEER TUTORING The word ‘peer’ means a person who belongs to the same age group or social group as someone else especially based on age, grade or status. Example : A peer is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other 10th grader high school students are your peer. Peer Tutoring: Process between two or more students in a group where one of the students acts as a tutor for the other group-mate(s).Can be applied among students of the same age or students belonging to different age group. DEFINATION AND OF PEER TUTORING Definition According to Domon and Phelps, ‘‘Peer tutoring is an approach in which one child instructs another child in material on which the first is an expert and the second is a novice.’’ OBJECTIVES OF PEER TUTORING Develop students knowledge, skills and abilities. (b) Provide practical opportunity for peer tutors to apply their knowledge and skills in a cooperative learning environment (c) To make the students social and make the community better through co-operative working. (d) Provide a student-centered, non-traditional and innovative learning experience for students. (e) Develop students communication skills through peer tutoring. (f) To make the individuals generous and have helping attitude. (g) To help the student have more and more confidence. (h) To make the habit of consulting each other and solve the problem. (i) To enable the student think and work independently. TYPES OF PEER TUTORING 1. Incidental Peer Tutoring: Incidental peer tutoring often takes place, either at school or while students are playing after school or when they are socializing. Whenever children are cooperating, playing or studying and one guides the others, it may be stated that we have a kind of incidental peer tutoring. For example when a students asks his/her classmate to help him/her in maths or asks for tips on how to improve his/her performance while playing a new video game, we have cases of incidental peer tutoring. 2. Structured Peer Tutoring: Structured peer tutoring refers to peer tutoring implemented in specific cases and for specific subjects, following a well-structured plan prepared by the teacher. Structured peer tutoring is spontaneously used by experienced teachers who are able to plan well in advance and are familiar on how to combine tutors and tutees appropriately in order to have good results. STEPS OF PEER TUTORING