The paper illustrates practical and cost-effective ways students can share responsibility in delivering instruction, preparing materials, assessing progress, recordkeeping, and improving motivation. (CL)

Physical education teachers can establish successful therapeutic exercise programs for mainstreamed handicapped students by involving peer helpers in a carefully designed program. (CL)

Mildly retarded students (11-13 years old) who participated in an intraclass peer tutoring program had significantly higher gain scores (pretest-posttest) on both vocabulary and reading subtests than did 62 controls. (CL)

Training teachers in collegiality during the teacher education program, an approach to counter teacher isolation, is described. Such programs should accommodate and encourage dialogue among prospective teachers. One example of how teacher educators are striving to foster such collegial relationships is given. (Author/CB)

Describes a peer facilitation program in interpersonal communication. Covers practicum site, duties of peer facilitators, staff meetings, compensation, selection, and benefits. (PD)

An individualized peer inservice training program incorporated visits to demonstration-training classrooms and follow-up at an after-school conference. Seventy-six percent of secondary and 75 percent of elementary teachers reported changes for their classes as a direct result of their visits. Demonstration-training teachers cited benefits as well.…

Schools and districts across the country have long been focused on ensuring that students succeed in life and participate effectively in society. With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, efforts to realize this goal for all students have intensified. Though many children are successfully meeting state and local academic standards, others…

This study investigated the effect of the presence or absence of a Videotape Recorder and the use of peer leadership versus supervisor leadership in critique sessions during the preservice training of elementary school teachers using microteaching. (Authors/JA)

In Dallas, high school tutors enlarge their own skills while helping other students, and everyone gets a big boost in self-esteem. (Editor)

As an experiment, an English teacher assigned each student to teach a class allowing them assign homework and evaluate the other students. Student reaction to the experiment was not favorable. (AP)

In an effort to accelerate in-depth use of its libraries by undergraduates, Brown University has designed a plan of bringing advanced graduate students, veterans of intensive summer training in reference work, into contact with the undergraduate library user. (2 references) (Author)

The social interaction training program paired three withdrawn mentally retarded children with three nonwithdrawn retarded children and provided instruction in three reciprocal responses designed to increase the target child's social responsiveness. Statistically significant differences of frequencies of social interaction were noted after…

The theory is a plausible explanation of a phenomenon: students in the presence of a student tutoring program seem to manifest prosocial attitudes and behavior. (Author)

Describes major features of the peer tutoring program at State University of New York, College of New Paltz. Presents specific suggestions for hiring and training tutors, maintaining staff morale and program visibility, and conducting program evaluations. (DR)