Peer Tutoring
Peer tutoring includes a range of approaches in which learners work in pairs or small groups to provide each other with explicit teaching support, such as:
- Cross-age tutoring, in which an older learner takes the tutoring role and is paired with a younger tutee or tutees
- Peer assisted learning, which is a structured approach for mathematics and reading with sessions of 25 –35 minutes two or three times a week
- Reciprocal peer tutoring, in which learners alternate between the role of tutor and tutee
Benefits to this include:
CASE STUDY: The Schools of King Edward the Sixth in Birmingham, West Midlands
Vantage Education delivered a series of six workshops called ‘Picture this in Science’. The aim of this series is to support pupils with their science work in the curriculum.
A group of 12 students immersed themselves into science using photography as a vehicle for learning in a highly creative way. Over the six workshops, students covered Changing State, Earth, Sun, Moon, Electricity, Food Chains, Forces, Friction, Solids, Liquids and Gases, Growing Plants, Keeping Healthy, Light and Dark, Magnets, Plants and Animals, Rocks and Soils, and Variation.
Vantage Education used photography and visual media to bring these topics to life in a fun and engaging way. Visual media is assessable to a wide range of students and allows them to express themselves at a level that suits their personal abilities.
Pupils were encouraged to develop their own ideas to produce a final piece of work. Vantage Education aims to encourage positive behaviour and involvement within the workshops to achieve a higher standard of work, while also giving pupils one-on-one assistance where needed and encouraging asking for help when it is required.
CASE STUDY: A primary school in Somerset UK collaborating with The British School of Tokyo, Japan
Meeting the Learner Profile for the International Baccalaureate was the goal for Vantage Education when working with the selection of schools.
The eleven year old students were brought together by Vantage Education who had been invited to deliver a series of expressive workshops, based on: Empathy, Bravery, Courtesy and Civility.
The workshops ran over 11 weeks in curriculum time and were focused on ‘Life Development’ modules, which involved working on an overall project in creating exercises for each other’s cultures in developing pupils emotional competencies. These practicals were designed to ensure the learners developed the key themes of: enquiry based communication and principled and open-minded thinking.
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