Mason High school is a suburban school in Mason, Ohio with a student population of 3,400. Its schoolwide peer tutoring program which opened at the beginning of the 2016 school year, was created by its program advisor, Jere Clark who has taught at the school for 11 years. Motivation for Creating a Peer Tutoring Program […]
Carrabec High School and Carrabec Community School: The Need for a Cross-Age Peer Tutoring Program The schools being featured today are described by Solomon Heifets as rural schools, each with less than 200 students, located in North Anson, Maine, across the river from an old mill town. More than 70% of students qualify for free […]
Happy New Year! The PTRC is excited to kick off its 2016 blogging year with this peer tutoring program spotlight featuring Trantwood Elementary School. At this time, many educators like you are entering the new year thinking about what new approaches to try or how to improve your already existing systems. Got peer tutoring on […]
Today's peer tutoring resource spotlight features a peer tutor training and peer tutoring program planning guide written by a certified school psychologist and administrator as well as a trainer and consultant to schools and organizations. Despite what the title of the guide suggests, this resource is more than a peer tutor training manual. It also […]
Starting a peer tutoring program often requires support from parents, teachers and other school officials; and it's not uncommon to find that some of these individuals are unfamiliar with the notion of peer tutoring. For example, parents who aren’t familiar with peer tutoring strategies often have concerns about letting their children participate as peer tutors […]
Today we’re sharing two helpful peer tutoring articles by Dana Monaghan M.S., CCC-SLP of Teach Tutors. Dana is a public school educator and has coordinated a peer tutoring program that won a local “Striving for Excellence” award. She is also a self-published author of a tutor training manual and workbook (available at TeachTutors.com) titled Building […]
A great way to find ideas for setting up or improving your own peer tutoring program is by learning from the experiences of others in the development of their own programs. Today, we offer you an opportunity to learn about the peer tutoring program of Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School (LSRHS) in Massachusetts. We’d like […]
Based on our observation, it seems relatively easier to find research supporting the benefits of peer tutoring than finding information on how to actually get a program started. This article provides a brief overview of how to set up a peer tutoring program at your school . The Peer Tutoring Manual written by retired Oakland […]
