This book provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help teachers and administrators make learning more student-centered, effective, and productive. The 31 models describes a range of approaches and applications in a variety of settings and disciplines. The chapters are: (1) "Establishing a Common…

This paper introduces "lesson study" as used in Japan to improve instruction. Lesson study is the process of planning, conducting, and discussing the research lesson for teachers to study. Four features are identified as essential to Japanese lesson study: (1) a shared long-term goal for teachers; (2) important lesson content; (3)…

The article gives the results of Army experiments that replaced lecturers with a buddy system of man-to-man instruction. (Author/LF)

Program uses peer observers in lieu of videotapes; includes teaching of both peers and actual students. (RT)

Compares the verbal and nonverbal teaching strategies used by children and adults in two laboratory classification tasks. Results support the hypothesis that children would use more nonverbal instruction than adults and would instruct through references to specific instances rather than by providing general information relating items to each…

Using nonhandicapped children (9 to 10 years old) in peer tutoring with 11 severely mentally handicapped children resulted in a significant increase in tutees' associative and cooperative play and a significant decrease in negative attention seeking and inappropriate behavior. (CL)

The study evaluated the effects of four fifth-grade learning disabled (LD) students tutoring one third-grade and three second-grade LD students on word recognition skills. The results indicated that the cross age tutoring procedure was mutually beneficial for the tutors and the tutees. For related information see EC 132 758-768. (Author)

Among procedural considerations in planning a peer tutoring program are tutor and tutee selection (examining age, sex, socioeconimic, cultural, and racial factors); tutor training; and program monitoring. Ethical considerations include stigmatization of the tutee. Future research issues should focus on long term effects and optimal tutor-tutee…

Project PERMIT (Physical Education Resources for Mainstreaming and Inservice Training) uses peer teaching to increase the amount of individual attention of handicapped children in an elementary regular physical education class. (DB)

Literature on peer tutors and peer helpers with handicapped and nonhandicapped students is reviewed and a model is proposed for the establishment and supervision of peer helpers. Steps include identification of needs; selection of helpers; preparation of helpers; the process of helping, recording, supervision, and evaluation. (Author)

A case study of inverse tutoring, in which a slow reader in the ninth grade tutored a first grader with speech and reading problems, indicates that both students benefited from the project. (WD)

Stresses the importance and benefits of children helping each other learn to read. Includes suggestions and guidelines to reading instructors for structuring peer-directed activities. (HTH)

A two-credit course for students who wish to tutor in a writing lab focuses on helping students objectively evaluate compositions and respond appropriately to them. (DD)

Describes how two fifth-grade classes and one third-grade class used peer groups to respond to students' writing. (DD)

The article describes a program implemented in an elementary school in which normal children tutored their disabled peers. Among suggestions given for developing peer tutoring programs are the careful selection of participants, administration of pre-post achievement tests, and development of individualized objectives and activities. (SBH)