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It is good to conduct 4-8 training sessions, 15 minutes each, on the peer tutoring procedure before they begin tutoring.
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Training typically begins with the teaching of the FeedbackError Correction procedure.
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Demonstrate how peer tutoring will look. Go through a lesson with another teacher or a student as the tutee. Be sure to “model” appropriate
tutor and tutee behavior.
4. Preparing the Tutoring Materials: Peer tutoring will go more smoothly
and students will learn more if they have clear, simple materials to use. Usually, this can simply be a prepared worksheet or a deck of flashcards.
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When you would like your students to tutor each other on factual or comprehension questions, a simple worksheet like the one shown below
might work best. Each question you would like the students to askrespond to are listed. There are columns to mark correct and incorrect responses.
The correct answers to the questions are listed at the bottom. Question
Correct Incorrect
1 Who was the first President of the
United States?
2 Who was president of the United
States during the Civil War?
3 How many years in a row can a person
be president?
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True or False: You can be president if you were born in Canada
Answer key dont let your partner see the answers 1. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln 3. 8
4. False. Only people born in the United States can be president.
While tutoring, the tutor would cover the answer key with hisher hand or a post-it note.
5. Teaching the FeedbackError Correction Procedure.
The FeedbackError correction procedure is perhaps THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of the peer training program, because this is what
ensures that the tutoring “flows” along smoothly, while ensuring that learning will be maximized through reinforcement and immediate error correction. But
don’t worry it is simple
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Here is how it works: 1. Tutor reads the question to the tutee or the tutor presents the problem on a
flash card or says the word. 2. The tutee responds.
o If the tutee responds correctly:
o Tutor checks the correct column next to the question or word
o Tutor says Youre right
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o Tutor goes on to next question
3. If the tutee responds incorrectly: d. Tutor checks the “incorrect” column
e. Tutor repeats the question and provides the correct answer note that the tutor DOES NOT say “nope” or “you’re wrong”. Heshe just simply repeats the
question and provides the answer. f. Tutor asks the question again
g. Repeat procedure until tutee responds correctly, and then move on to the next question.
6. Develop System to Request Help