By challenging the traditional view of the teacher's authority, collaborative learning helps prepare students for effective interdependence in an increasingly collaborative world. Collaborative learning calls on levels of ingenuity and inventiveness that many students never knew they had. (MLW)

The article reviews studies which demonstrate the positive impact of peer tutoring on cognitive and affective skills of special children, considers implications for classroom programming, and discusses the use of tutoring as a learning activity for all students regardless of abilities. (Author/DB)

Discusses a study in which four low-achieving 12-year-old readers were trained to tutor similar age low-achieving readers in reading comprehension strategies. States that both tutors and students learned to use the strategies effectively and that both groups made substantial gains in comprehension. (GEA)

Asserts that teaching English as a second language (ESL) to children involves setting up social conditions that promote purposeful use of English. Suggests that peer teaching is one way to create a successful language learning environment. (MM)

Teachers need to become comfortable with computers and to find out how to use computers in their teaching. Tips for training teachers include developing an inservice training corps, hiring teachers with computer expertise for peer instruction, and utilizing free services and materials. (MLF)

In teaching others about their enrichment research projects, gifted students develop instructional skills useful in many contexts. The model MAT (Making All-of-us Teachers) Program uses a five-part process: (1) thinking about teaching; (2) choosing a lesson topic; (3) planning the lesson; (4) delivering the lesson; and (5) review and evaluation.…

Examines some of the difficulties in peer tutoring and points out the dilemma of whether to emphasize the tutor component (apprentice model) or the peer component (colearner model). Offers a solution that incorporates elements from both stages, one that treats tutors developmentally. (NKA)

Discusses the peer-training model, opposition to the plan, major objectives of the model, strategies for motivating employees to train and for making training a priority, training the trainer, ongoing training in the work units, and benefits of the program. (CT)

Describes the efforts of the Sara Lee Corporation in adopting an urban Chicago high school in order to encourage good grades. Professional football player Willie Gault's role as academic team "captain" is discussed. Program elements such as business education class speakers, peer tutors, scholarships, faculty support programs, and…

Describes a cross-disciplinary peer teaching program to improve high school teachers' writing skills. The 16-week program succeeded because of four main ingredients: administrative support, a long-term commitment to improving student writing, an onsite, inservice design, and incentives for teacher involvement. (MLH)

Analysis of reciprocal peer tutoring combined with group reinforcement contingencies on the arithmetic performance of 12 underachieving fifth-graders indicated that the intervention increased the students' arithmetic performance to a level indistinguishable from their classmates during treatment and 12-week follow-up. Students also increased peer…

Results indicated that the four-deaf blind and severely retarded adolescent subjects performed tasks faster under instruction from high school tutors but required more assistance to complete tasks than under special education teachers. Teachers were more efficient instructors and presented more trials to students per unit of instructional time…

Describes the use of Peer Tutor/Counselors in the Learning Skills Development Center at the University of Southern California. Considers the skills involved in training tutors as counselors (e.g., building rapport, establishing credibility, assessing needs, creating a "serious" atmosphere, and articulating expectations, defusing…

To investigate the order in which the components of the text-lookback strategy are acquired, 100 fifth-grade students were asked to tutor younger readers. The order of acquisition was as follows: undifferentiated rereading, text sampling, question differentiation, and text manipulation. (Author/BW)

This article: (1) outlines advantages of having more than two students work together at the computer keyboard; (2) discusses several new issues teachers must consider; and (3) describes specific examples of applications designed to promote cognitive and social outcomes. (JMK)