Peer education needs to be incorporated in nearly every facet of health education curriculum. Several aspects of peer education are discussed: various definitions, rationales for using it, opportunities to use peer education, and strategies. (CMJ)

Discusses belief that foreign language teachers, with help and cooperation from better language learners, can help less successful students increase their competency. Teachers must take student personality and cognition variables into account. (Author/BK)

Reports the results of a study that supports the use of cross-grade tutors reading along with poor readers to improve their reading skills. (HTH)

A program that paired third-year veterinary students with fifth-year students for exposure to veterinary hospital procedures is described. It is noted that this experience costs little, provides important peer influence and informal peer instruction, and is voluntary. (MSE)

Children in an English junior school with an attached unit for severely handicapped children were given a paper and pencil questionnaire to determine the level of acceptance of their handicapped peers. (Author)

The Physical Education Opportunity Program for Exceptional Learners (PEOPEL) was initiated as a project designed to provide a physical education experience for handicapped learners. PEOPEL differs from regular physical education programs in three aspects: (1) the use of trained student aids, (2) smaller class size, and (3) individualized…

Gives practical suggestions for elementary school teachers with non-English speaking students. Initial survival language and peer tutoring models for promoting language development are the focus of these suggestions. (HTH)

Usual student seminar classes involve students presenting papers to the class. Alternatives to this approach are offered that maximize student audience involvement. The suggestions incorporate variations of sub-grouping, idea generation, discussion of important statements, and the refining, clarification, and evaluation of key statements. (JMD)

Effective teaching methods are often used by children tutoring peers and observation of peer tutoring can be fruitful for the teacher. (JD)

Describes one education department's structural approach to utilizing existing student resources at no cost in a counselor training program. This external linkage system uses the students from five existing courses within one counselor education department. (Author)

A peer tutoring model is described and suggestions for implementing peer tutoring programs are provided. The seven steps in the development of a peer tutoring program are: establishing a need, considering curriculum, assessing, selecting learners, selecting tutors, monitoring, and coordinating. (PHR)

Discusses the selection and training of student tutors for college reading programs, the supervision of tutors, and studies of the effectiveness of college-level peer tutoring programs. (GT)

Eighteen second-grade children initially received feedback in the form of nonredeemable tokens for reducing their disruptive classroom behavior. (Author)

This study investigated the effects of providing training in helping behaviors on peer tutors in mathematics. Participants were 20 dyads composed of a general education student and a student with learning disabilities (grades 2-4). Results indicate the students who received the helping training engaged in an increased number of directly trained…

Describes a class demonstration in which students learn about Jean Piaget's concepts of schemata, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration. Explains that students work in pairs (but cannot see one another) where one teaches the other how to make a duplicate of an already constructed block model. (CMK)