I agree completely. Good experiences encourage students to talk to their friends about it, further promoting word-of-mouth satisfaction for the insitution.
Do your students work collaboratively or are they evaluated individually? Do you reward students who take greater responsibility? How do you handle students who don't willingly work with their peers?
On my class, right on the beginning, I explain the student on value of support and communication. They communicate among each other, help understand the lesson, the set goal to achieved each task, also they feel not alone tackling the job or goals. I believed it help them stay focus, knowing they are not alone, they build peers effective support groups.
And it may be that their friend is able to "get on their wave length" and present the information in a slightly different way that resonates with the struggling student.
Crreating students friendly envirement and indivigual effort from the instructors indeed very helpful to keep students in thier classes
i agree this has work great for me.the student that is having trouble sometimes can open up more to a friend than to a teacher.
Do you have any idea why sections have different "personalities"? Is it purely random or are there defining issues?
I agree in many cases when students who understand the concepts will then turn and help other students (though not in all cases). I find that this varies from class to class as in some classes I will have a good sizable percentage of students who are interested and stay with the course, while in other classes, making sure students come to class and remain becomes more difficult. Since I tend to teach classes near the end of the program, it may have to do with past experiences in other classes and/or influence from instructors.
I think this is good thing to do.
I do this process also. I know that sometimes a different perspective can provide some insight to the situation.
It has been said that teaching is a direct path to mastery. It is almost impossible to tutor someone on a subject that you don't thoroughly understand.
Selecting a student to serve as a tutor is both an honor and responsibility. Hopefully, both parties have a thorough understanding about the commitment and the student has the opportunity to temporarily suspend their participation when their personal work load doesn't allow him/her to properly perform the job.
I would agree provided the "tutor" is able to keep up with their own work. Many times the student that could act as a tutor can't afford to spend time tutoring as they are busy trying to complete their "other" tasks or projects.
I agree. Students also learn more when they teach or show other.s
Do you have a formal process to engage these tutors or is this a rather spontaneous action? Have you had students reject the opportunity to help their peers?
