This article describes an innovation, based on an inquiry-oriented approach to student teacher supervision, in the primary teacher education program at St. George Institute of Education. This approach emphasizes learning to teach rather than evaluation. Third year students acted as supervisors-teachers to first year students engaged in…

Describes a classroom activity in which a group of five students compose an essay together which meets the following academic objectives: (1) awareness of what constitutes a thesis; (2) understanding of evidence which can be used to support such a thesis; and (3) a conception of a conventionally developed five-paragraph essay. (RAE)

Students talented in science were offered an opportunity to use community research facilities and to conduct scientific research in an independent study course at Avon Grove High School in Kemblesville, Pennsylvania. The course involved peer collaboration, cooperative learning, the teacher as mentor, research papers, and oral presentations. (JDD)

Tested predictions about age-related differences in the tutoring abilities and behaviors of children at three, five, and seven years of age. Found significant changes in tutoring strategies, verbal instruction, and contingency of teaching in the three age groups. (DR)

Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring is presented as an innovative, research-based instructional alternative that gives teachers greater flexibility to accommodate diversity while increasing students' opportunity to engage actively in meaningful, strategy-based reading practice. During 35-minute tutoring sessions, students participate in partner…

One way to develop administrators who are comfortable and innovative with technology is principal-to-principal training through fellow administrators who are using technology effectively. Support and encouragement of the district includes purchasing the needed hardware and ongoing staff development. (MLF)

This article discusses using peer content-area tutoring and strategy instruction to help college students with learning disabilities become self-regulated learners. The instructional model addresses transferring strategies across settings, linking cognitive strategies to the content curriculum, guiding the student to independent strategy use, and…

Investigates whether traditional academic tutors hired to work with underprepared university-level student athletes could learn to implement a strategic approach to tutoring. Indicates that tutors substantially changed their tutoring to include both cognitive and megacognitive learning strategies as well as subject materal. (Includes 27…

United Kingdom-Russia education exchange shows how relationships between industry and higher education in the West are being mirrored in the former Soviet Union. Peer education has a significant role to play in knowledge transfer, which is crucial to enterprise development in a developing economy. (SK)

Reviews current writing center debates about the peer tutor's role and authority. Presents three case studies investigating the ways in which first-time tutors and their clients enact role and authority in their tutorial relationships. (RS)

Reviews a number of classroom research projects conducted at Pfeiffer College, which investigated four teaching strategies: using modified cooperative learning groups within courses; linking upper-level students to selected lower-level students; using coached cooperative learning groups; and peer mentoring. (DMM)

Describes a formative and reciprocal partnership that can help librarians with similar experience and knowledge develop their instructional skills through peer coaching. A literature review; program guidelines; choosing partners; the process of classroom observation; and the provision of descriptive, nonevaluative feedback are covered. (23…

A student (age 15) classified as behaviorally disordered tutored a student with learning disabilities. The peer tutoring brought about improvements in the tutee's on-task and academic performance but not in the tutor's disruptive behavior. Self-monitoring and a self-instructional component were then implemented to eliminate the tutor's disruptive…

Examines the characteristics of three approaches to the teaching of writing (traditional, tutorial, and group). Demonstrates how the combined use of pair work and peer feedback, features of the group approach, enables students of English as a Second Language to learn from each other and improve their writing. (HB)

The study of a peer-mediated instructional procedure (Classwide Peer Tutoring) with 9 students (ages 78 to 119 months) classified as mildly mentally retarded found that daily practice of spelling words using the procedure resulted in 95 percent correct on weekly tests, about 90 percent correct on tests of long-term retention, and positive student…