Students work in pairs or small groups, provides explicit teaching support with peer groups, use students as teachers. Types of peer tutoring is effective for handling students with mild disabilities
3. Peer Tutoring – Meaning
Learners work
in pairs or
small groups
Provide Explicit
teaching
support
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4. Peer Tutoring – Meaning
Uses students as
tutors
Academic, social,
behavioral,
functional or
social skills
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5. Unidirectional
• Trained peer tutor
teaches the entire time
• Effective – children with
severe disabilities
• Tutor and student
always know their roles
• Peer tutor carries the
responsibility
throughout programme
Bi directional
• Child with and without
disability have a pair
• Children switch their
roles for each skill,
class, week or unit
• Effective – children with
mild disabilities
• child have an
opportunity to be a
teacher
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6. Class wide
• Breaking the class into pairs
• All children are given task
• Effective – Children with mild
disabilities
• Entire class is involved in the
tutoring
• No children are singled out
because of disability
Cross Age
• Peer tutor is interested in
working with children with
disabilities
• Effective – student young or the
disability is more involved
• Chosen according to
willingness, physical skills and
availability
• Tutor gains teaching experience
• Students experience effective
individualized instruction and
feedback
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9. Requirements for Online Tutoring
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∞ Access the session from all devices
∞ Face to Face video conferencing
∞ Speak with high quality and excellent voice
∞ Knowledge of write, type, erase and draw on digital advance
whiteboard
∞ Text chat via messaging
∞ Upload and share files
∞ Feedback from students
10. Benefits of Online Tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Convenience and flexibility
Quick learning
Tutors can see a
child when they
struggling for
learning
Feedback and
criticism
Same possibilities of
learning
Details of
performance and
improvements
11. Benefits of Online Tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Manage workload
Prioritize time
Elimination of
geographical
constraints
Sending links of
diagrams, charts,
articles etc.
Elimination of travel
time
More interactivity
15. Benefits of Peer Learning@GovindarajS PhD
Ω Cost Effective
Ω Positive influence
Ω Encouraging greater productivity
Ω Share experiences
Ω More practice
Ω Build trust and work towards success
Ω Build strong connections
Ω Sharing of knowledge
Ω Help in solving problems
Ω Focus on one specific area
Ω Build internal relationships
Ω Transferring knowledge and
information
16. Benefits of Peer Learning@GovindarajS PhD
Ω More personalized experience
Ω Active learning is encouraged
Ω Deeper understanding
Ω Feels more comfortable
Ω Peers have greater connection
17. Peer tutoring in the classroom@GovindarajS PhD
Enhance recall the content
Involve reasoning and critical
thinking
Discussing and rationalizing lesson
concepts in their own words
Build confidence and
communication abilities
Improve self-esteem and
interpersonal skills
Immediate clarification of doubts
Comfortable to ask questions
Versality
Social motivation
Accommodate a classroom of
diverse learners
Promotes academic gain
23. Importance of Peer tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Provide Encouragement
Help students learn
Aware of nonverbal communication
Successful study strategies
Questioning and answering strategies
enhanced
Paying attention towards concept
Explain concepts in different angles
24. Disadvantages of Peer tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Peer tutors must be trained, monitored and graded
Planning and preparing requires additional time
Lack of social development
Students may not teach as experience as teacher
Does not promote positive relationship with
peer members
Some students may come forward to teach,
others seldom listen
25. Disadvantages of Peer tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Lack of supervision and monitoring of progress of
students
Lack of empathy for struggling peers
Difficulties in arranging classes
Challenges for staff members in supervision
Assess the quality of peer to peer learning
exercise
26. Disadvantages of Peer tutoring@GovindarajS PhD
Peer pressure and friendship may affect among peers
May cheat or gang up against one group member
Students are not experienced in assessing each other
Students are lacking in explain the content in detail
