Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Using Peer Tutoring to Improve Student Reading
Queen's University Belfast
The course introduced the peer tutoring method used to improve the reading attainment of children aged 8-14 years old in educational and non-educational settings. It looked at the evidence that supports the use of peer tutoring as a pedagogic technique and explored the benefits of using the method to promote learning. It led learners through the process of how to plan for and structure peer tutoring in reading, and gave advice on how to troubleshoot challenges in establishing the approach.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Allen Thurston
Director, Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation,
Queen's University Belfast
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the evidence that underpins the use of peer tutoring as a means to improve reading for students aged 8-14 years-old
- Examine (and apply) in which settings and contexts peer tutoring should be used as a means to improve reading for students aged 8-14 years-old
- Develop the skills of how to use peer tutoring as a means to improve reading for students aged 8-14 years-old in educational/childcare settings
- Reflect and discuss how to develop social and communication skills in students aged 8-14 years-old
Syllabus
- Use of a paired reading as a pedagogic technique in educational or non-educational settings
- Evidence that supports the use of peer tutoring as a means to improve reading
- Explore participants own experiences of using peer learning
- The technique of paired reading
- How to structure peer tutoring in reading
- How to establish peer tutoring in reading in educational/childcare settings
- The benefits of using peer tutoring to promote learning
- Understanding the research behind peer tutoring
- Developing social and communications skills for and through peer learning
- Planning and trouble shooting advice to embed paired reading in an educational or non-educational setting
Issued on 5th November 2018
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