Should Students with advanced learning needs tutor their peers?
- Erin Logan
- Sep 7, 2018
- 1 min read
This article by Catherine Little of the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education considers the practice of having students with advanced learning needs tutor other students in their classroom. She frames her thinking around these questions that teachers can ask when applying this practice: what are the intended learning outcomes, how do we measure them, and how do we guide students to achieve them? The article is titled: Op-Ed: Rethink Peer Tutoring by Gifted Learners
This is one of the more balanced and practical takes I've come across on the topic. It's refreshing to see someone explain the reasoning and not just hand over a checklist. There's a complementary piece I wrote about this at portalbridges.net that adds a bit more context.