Peer Learning

This handbook for teachers -- both preservice and inservice -- provides information about training and providing opportunities for students to tutor younger students. It shows how the learning process can benefit both tutor and student by going beyond the teacher-led classroom to one that is more democratically organized. Peer teachers improve their grasp of the subject and younger children learn from those who truly speak their language. In addition to increased learning and interest in learning, peer tutoring allows classroom teachers to devote time to students who need more individualized attention and to teach analytic and human relations skills and imaginative uses of technology.