Current classroom teachers can both enhance their classroom instruction and recruit and develop aspiring teachers by incorporating peer tutors into their instruction. Here, we share tools developed to make it easier for a teacher to establish a peer tutoring program.
Peer Tutoring Handbook and Guide
The Peer Tutoring Staff Handbook is designed to offer four primary processes for initiating and operating a peer tutoring program:
- Recruiting & selecting applicants
- Conducting the initial tutor training
- Extending tutoring skills through ongoing training
- Evaluating and documenting the tutors’ development).
It is not the intent for every user to implement these practices exactly as they are described (unless that is what the user finds to be most useful). Instead, the handbook may be used to direct attention to essential components of a peer tutoring program, leaving the user to reflect upon their relative usefulness and to adapt the processes and materials as they see fit to do. Likewise, the embedded Google documents linked in the handbook are there to be used in their current form or to be copied and altered to suit the needs of the user.