Peer Tutoring for English Language Learners

About This Course

• This course provides you with a comprehensive plan for implementing a peer tutoring program into your classroom. You will learn about what peer tutoring is and its benefits, particularly for English Language Learners (ELLs). You will plan how to select your student participants/student tutors, strategies for training your students, and guidance for monitoring and rewarding progress. You will learn specific strategies you can teach peer tutors to support in reading fluency, writing skills, and math proficiency.

  An external course provider, ed2go (Cengage), offers this course. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with their privacy policy.

  
  

  In this course, you will:

  • Understand the purpose and benefits of peer tutoring for academic and socio-emotional support
  • Evaluate the best situation to utilize peer tutoring as you plan to select, train, and incentivize your peer tutors
  • Analyze multiple peer tutoring strategies to assist you in improving fluency, comprehension, writing, or math achievement
  • Review methods to monitor and track performance over time
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