Foster Peer Tutors In Your Classroom
Recently a colleague and I were having a conversation about how students often learn better from one another and how peer tutors can really boost another student's confidence and willingness to try. As I was reflecting on our conversation, I suddenly had an idea of how I might foster peer tutoring creatively in a classroom. My idea is to have students show answers to questions the teacher gives them and record their responses to share out in a common place for all of their classmates to see. It would work something like this. . . . First each student would get a different question to answer (math problem, grammar question, review question etc.) Next, each student would use a site like Ziteboard.com to upload a picture (or multiple pictures) of the question or problem. It could be a picture of the actual work that the student has done. Ziteboard will allow the students to annotate and mark up the picture. Then, the student would use ...