Brandi Gibson You can have the students pair up, and have one student be the teacher and the other be the coach. You can have the student that understands the concept fully be the teacher first, then you would have them reverse their roles after the concept has been taught. Reading across documents is effective when a student reads across different texts and becomes even more effective when they have conflicting points of view. Students also need to understand the concepts of doubt and resolution- and not accepting everything at face value.
Peer tutoring is a wonderful tool to use. When a student understands a concept and can help another student understand it, true learning occurs for both. I love peer tutoring. Sometimes I use this as a way to have students “teach” me a math skill. Before reading across documents is effective, I think students have to be able to analyze the source for credibility. So many students I work with are very literal and accept everything they read on the Internet as valid information. They don’t look to see the credentials of the source, so when they get conflicting information they are totally confused. I think examining the source is the first key, then doing a Thinking Map to list facts that are similar and those that differ is the best method I’ve found.
I try to use peer tutoring as often as I can. Either we do the work as a whole group or I have them do the work without me in the equation. I think peer tutoring is actually more challenging. It requires not only leading but listening- its reciprocal! The most challenging part of peer tutoring is this dialogue: Peer- helping the other student and gives them an incorrect answer Student- accepts the answer but is unsure Teacher- points out the correct answer and inquires as to what happened Student- acknowledges the answer was wrong but since the peer lead them to that answer it was accepted as good. Teacher- encourages the peer and student to have an open dialogue and not just accept what the peers says. When the peer and the student are close academically this often happens! It's a great way to encourage the student to trust in themselves and be their own advocate!
I really don't use reading across documents much especially ones that have conflicting information. That's a little too challenging for my sped students at this point.
I am personally a HUGE fan of peer tutoring and mentoring. I think it is so effective because students can relate more to their peers. Not only can they learn in a more relaxed environment, but students have their own dialect. You speak differently with your friends than you do your boss, so when trying to learn a difficult concept it is often easier to break down if it is done in a way that is easier for you to understand.
I think reading across documents is integral to the high school and college experience simply because of the necessity to conduct valid research. You have to be able to pull information from multiple sources, find how they relate to each other, and make sense of them. It is an essential piece of Common Core and something our students really struggle with. They can identify a common idea, but finding specific examples that support the connection is where they struggle.
Peer tutoring can be a powerful tool for both students involved. When a student has to teach a concept, they have to think through different ways to explain it. They are promoting their own learning. A teacher from the book grouped students of different language proficiency levels that weren’t too far apart so students could easily relate to each other. He also trained students in ways to coach their partner when tutoring. I could find a way to have my students work with other students, especially in areas that they are learning about at that time. It would be interesting to see how the student would do helping during center time and running a center to work with a small group of younger students to teach the concept.
It’s important for students to be able to take information from different sources and use it. Being able to look at conflicting pieces of information to decide which should be used and which should be discarded is a life skill. I think this ties in with the topic a few weeks ago from students reviewing websites for validity. If they aren’t able to analyze the source of the information, they will believe anything on the internet. The same holds true for information, especially advertising. One of my students was very interested in the Bermuda Triangle. In her research, I made her answer, “Why does this happen?” She had to research the many different theories and decide which could be the real answer. To do that, she had to read across documents.
I use peer tutoring as often as I can. The only time I don’t use it is when two students want to “help” each other and they are both failing the class. Otherwise it is a great tool. It does have the potential to bring good discussions in certain areas, like English and study skills. I think that sometimes having things explained by someone other than an adult puts it into a clearer perspective for the student who is struggling. The other day of of my students was not getting history and my peer model student reminded them of an event that happened at breakfast and related it to the concept being taught and it worked! The light bulb went on!
In adult life students will need to pull information from multiple sources and evaluate their credibility. They will do this many times without even realizing it, so it is important that we teach them about creditable sources. Also to help practice this, I have my students do some research into areas they are interested in. They have to then decide if the information is accurate enough to be used in their research projects or not. So far in two weeks we have done this not only if my class but in English and Science as well since my kids first got the instruction from me, it has been easier in the other classes.
I enjoy seeing peer tutoring in action. Done well, it benefits both parties, the student hearing things from a new perspective and the one honing skills to the point they can teach it to another. I appreciated the points from research that peers need to be trained, structure provided, and peer of different age. I've observed kids trying to assist peers on their own and ending it up making them feel badly about themselves, even when that was not their intent. Like most things, it's a skill that needs instruction and practice, especially for little ones without a lot of experiences to draw from.
I liked the way the teacher in the video used reading across documents to get the students to discuss the perspective and motives of the authors, and use doubt and resolution as they read their sources. I see some of this happening in classrooms as kids get close to the end of high school, but some of the conversations I overhear from younger students, and some of the social media trends - like make your own braces - make me think this might be of benefit earlier - at least up to the point of evaluating sources.
Peer tutoring is something that can be awesome in student learning if the peer tutoring is structured and has purpose. In early learning I have seen this occur with students of all ages. I have seen this happen with academics and also social. We assign a peer to help the student to "tutor" or help the student during academic times within the classroom. We also use peers to help build social skills. I sometimes will assign a student to help be a leader for a special education student in helping them to understand social behaviors. Sometimes this student becomes their peer buddy throughout their day. I feel like reading across documents is hard for the EC students because they are just learning to listen to a story and pick out what the main idea may be. When I think of this for our little ones, I think of our school counselor who comes once a week and reads to the students. Most of the time it is more than just reading and telling something that happened, it is about taking the meaning of the story and critically thinking it through. Most of the time it is manners books in which she relates to their classrooms. She gets students to talking about things that have happened to them and relating their difficulties to the story. It takes reading to a higher level.
I use peer tutoring in my class especially if I am busy with one student and another needs help on an assignment, I use them to help the student better understand. I think it does help students when they learn from each other on both ends. The one that is teaching is helping him/her understand it even better and then they are also helping another student in their language. I know sometimes I have had students teach it a little bit different and the student then gets it. I do not use reading across document much in my classroom, although I can see how it could be beneficial. The student being able to apply the knowledge would be very helpful but we are usually working on simple comprehension questions or doing an assignment for a single article.
Last year when I was researching materials on effective math instruction/assessment, peer tutoring was a recommended strategy. Students who are able to explain the math lesson to a peer, learn the process better themselves. In the building I work, teachers used to have a paraprofessional in their classroom for both their math and reading blocks. Due to budget cuts, they only have a para during reading. I'd like to see them use more peer tutoring to fill this gap.
I was observing in a kindergarten classroom and they were reading and discussing different versions of the Three Little Pigs. The teacher even read a story to them from the wolf's perspective. What a great way to get students to analyze multiple texts and think critically at an early age.
I think peer tutoring is beneficial for the peer tutor because being able to explain and teach things to someone else makes you learn something in an entirely different way than when you’re on the receiving end of things. I don’t think I ever truly grasp this until I would try to explain something to another person, and I would just sit there stumped for a little while thinking, “How do I even begin to share this in a way that’s understandable???” Additionally, on the other hand, I think peer tutoring is great for the person being taught as well. I feel like a peer might be able to give more relatable examples or explain various concepts in a language that’s more easily grasp by another student than when a teacher is trying to do the same thing. The most recent occasion I’ve seen this strategy utilized is in a 2nd grade classroom. The teacher taught a particular concept, then had the students partner up. One student would re-teach the other student what he/she had learned, and then they would switch roles.
I really liked the idea that the book gave about the 2 respected teachers purposefully presenting their students with 2 completely opposing views on a topic, so that they would need to engage in further investigation and analysis before forming their own opinions on the topic. The way I see reading across documents being used most often is when students are researching various information to complete projects and reports. Within that process, I also think it’s very important for the students to be able to evaluate the sources that they’re using, which is also a much needed skill that will serve them well in the world we’re living in now.
Peer tutoring has an effect size of .55. How can you use it to promote student learning? Peer tutoring can be used to promote student learning by providing the students the opportunity to take ownership and a leadership role in their learning. Students love to play teacher. It also allows time to learn about miss-conceptions that the students may be having.
How can you use reading across documents to promote transfer? Reading across documents can promote transfer by helping the material being learned seem more relevant. If information is seen multiple times and in multiple ways it makes more sense and has more meaning.
Peer tutoring can be a really great thing, if it is done effectively. When a student can teach or help another student, it demonstrates that they truly understand the concept. It needs to be a good pairing, however, and it should have rules so that each party knows what they need to do. I have seen it done in some classes, and both parties are resentful towards each other. Neither student wanted to work together and so it was very ineffective.
Reading across documents helps students demonstrate an approach to analyzing texts, and it demonstrates higher level thinking skills. This is a concept that would be difficult for most of my students because of age and reading ability. I could totally see this being effective, though, in an upper level classroom.
Peer tutoring is very effective when it is done correctly. The text gave 3 guidelines for effective peer tutoring, including well structured, trained tutors, and different ages of tutor and tutee. This is something that we like to use at our middle school. We pair up students based on academic scores and teacher suggestions. Students in this program often improve their homework completion, but it does not always encourage diving into texts, concepts, or brainstorming. I think this would be more helpful if 8th graders did a reteach session with the 7th graders, rather than just check their tutee homework and help when needed.
Reading across documents can be very helpful for developing critical thinking skills and bolstering the transference process. My students were recently asked to write argumentative research papers. Part of their research included looking up articles with conflicting view points. Many of my students really struggled with this concept as they tried to understand how people with opposite opinions could both be right. While the teacher and I helped them sort through the data and modeled questions they might ask the texts, I think this could have been a great opportunity for students to work in small groups, investigate, discuss, possibly debate about this information. By reading across texts, students are able to think critically and analyze information at a deeper level.
Peer tutoring is effective because 1. Students get to talk about what they know and talking about it helps reinforce their knowledge, 2. Talking about what they are learning makes students think more deeply about their base of knowledge and organize it into a useful form, 3. Students are more likely to take ownership of the process, 4. In talking to a peer, students are given opportunity to hear other points of view and hear examples that they may not have thought of on their own, and 5. It gives students, who might otherwise remain quiet, the responsibility of participation. To work well, peer tutoring would require explicit teaching regarding expectations.. Having an expected structure that was previously taught would help students understand expectations and get more benefit from the experience. We have used peer tutoring with peers of different ages and grade levels. If used in a classroom, it would allow teachers to have mixed pairings of students who were of differing levels, varying the pairings to help build relationships between peers and giving each student opportunity to learn.
Reading across documents could provide students with conflicting points of view. In resolving the conflict in their own minds, they would need to analyze the credibility of the information sources read. It would give them opportunity to think critically about what they are learning and what they choose to believe. It might cause them to delve more deeply into other information in their search for truth. It might teach them that not everything they read is true and teach them to develop a healthy dose of skepticism in reading critically. In so doing, they might learn to think for themselves, a trait that would be of great benefit throughout their lifetimes.
Peer tutoring has an effect size of .55. How can you use it to promote student learning? How can you use reading across documents to promote transfer?
I think peer tutoring is a great tool. It's helpful for the student who is being taught as they get to receive the information in a different way that might be helpful. It's also helpful for the "teacher" who gets to learn the skill on a deeper level to be able to turn around and teach it to someone else. A lot of People, myself included, learn much more from teaching a skill than having it be taught too us. As far as reading across documents my students are not there yet. The kids I have for ELA are working through a phonics curriculum.
Brandi Gibson
ReplyDeleteYou can have the students pair up, and have one student be the teacher and the other be the coach. You can have the student that understands the concept fully be the teacher first, then you would have them reverse their roles after the concept has been taught.
Reading across documents is effective when a student reads across different texts and becomes even more effective when they have conflicting points of view. Students also need to understand the concepts of doubt and resolution- and not accepting everything at face value.
Peer tutoring is a wonderful tool to use. When a student understands a concept and can help another student understand it, true learning occurs for both. I love peer tutoring. Sometimes I use this as a way to have students “teach” me a math skill.
ReplyDeleteBefore reading across documents is effective, I think students have to be able to analyze the source for credibility. So many students I work with are very literal and accept everything they read on the Internet as valid information. They don’t look to see the credentials of the source, so when they get conflicting information they are totally confused. I think examining the source is the first key, then doing a Thinking Map to list facts that are similar and those that differ is the best method I’ve found.
I try to use peer tutoring as often as I can. Either we do the work as a whole group or I have them do the work without me in the equation. I think peer tutoring is actually more challenging. It requires not only leading but listening- its reciprocal! The most challenging part of peer tutoring is this dialogue:
ReplyDeletePeer- helping the other student and gives them an incorrect answer
Student- accepts the answer but is unsure
Teacher- points out the correct answer and inquires as to what happened
Student- acknowledges the answer was wrong but since the peer lead them to that
answer it was accepted as good.
Teacher- encourages the peer and student to have an open dialogue and not just
accept what the peers says.
When the peer and the student are close academically this often happens! It's a great way to encourage the student to trust in themselves and be their own advocate!
I really don't use reading across documents much especially ones that have conflicting information. That's a little too challenging for my sped students at this point.
I am personally a HUGE fan of peer tutoring and mentoring. I think it is so effective because students can relate more to their peers. Not only can they learn in a more relaxed environment, but students have their own dialect. You speak differently with your friends than you do your boss, so when trying to learn a difficult concept it is often easier to break down if it is done in a way that is easier for you to understand.
ReplyDeleteI think reading across documents is integral to the high school and college experience simply because of the necessity to conduct valid research. You have to be able to pull information from multiple sources, find how they relate to each other, and make sense of them. It is an essential piece of Common Core and something our students really struggle with. They can identify a common idea, but finding specific examples that support the connection is where they struggle.
Peer tutoring can be a powerful tool for both students involved. When a student has to teach a concept, they have to think through different ways to explain it. They are promoting their own learning. A teacher from the book grouped students of different language proficiency levels that weren’t too far apart so students could easily relate to each other. He also trained students in ways to coach their partner when tutoring.
ReplyDeleteI could find a way to have my students work with other students, especially in areas that they are learning about at that time. It would be interesting to see how the student would do helping during center time and running a center to work with a small group of younger students to teach the concept.
It’s important for students to be able to take information from different sources and use it. Being able to look at conflicting pieces of information to decide which should be used and which should be discarded is a life skill. I think this ties in with the topic a few weeks ago from students reviewing websites for validity. If they aren’t able to analyze the source of the information, they will believe anything on the internet. The same holds true for information, especially advertising.
One of my students was very interested in the Bermuda Triangle. In her research, I made her answer, “Why does this happen?” She had to research the many different theories and decide which could be the real answer. To do that, she had to read across documents.
I use peer tutoring as often as I can. The only time I don’t use it is when two students want to “help” each other and they are both failing the class. Otherwise it is a great tool. It does have the potential to bring good discussions in certain areas, like English and study skills. I think that sometimes having things explained by someone other than an adult puts it into a clearer perspective for the student who is struggling. The other day of of my students was not getting history and my peer model student reminded them of an event that happened at breakfast and related it to the concept being taught and it worked! The light bulb went on!
ReplyDeleteIn adult life students will need to pull information from multiple sources and evaluate their credibility. They will do this many times without even realizing it, so it is important that we teach them about creditable sources. Also to help practice this, I have my students do some research into areas they are interested in. They have to then decide if the information is accurate enough to be used in their research projects or not. So far in two weeks we have done this not only if my class but in English and Science as well since my kids first got the instruction from me, it has been easier in the other classes.
I enjoy seeing peer tutoring in action. Done well, it benefits both parties, the student hearing things from a new perspective and the one honing skills to the point they can teach it to another. I appreciated the points from research that peers need to be trained, structure provided, and peer of different age. I've observed kids trying to assist peers on their own and ending it up making them feel badly about themselves, even when that was not their intent. Like most things, it's a skill that needs instruction and practice, especially for little ones without a lot of experiences to draw from.
ReplyDeleteI liked the way the teacher in the video used reading across documents to get the students to discuss the perspective and motives of the authors, and use doubt and resolution as they read their sources. I see some of this happening in classrooms as kids get close to the end of high school, but some of the conversations I overhear from younger students, and some of the social media trends - like make your own braces - make me think this might be of benefit earlier - at least up to the point of evaluating sources.
Peer tutoring is something that can be awesome in student learning if the peer tutoring is structured and has purpose. In early learning I have seen this occur with students of all ages. I have seen this happen with academics and also social. We assign a peer to help the student to "tutor" or help the student during academic times within the classroom. We also use peers to help build social skills. I sometimes will assign a student to help be a leader for a special education student in helping them to understand social behaviors. Sometimes this student becomes their peer buddy throughout their day.
ReplyDeleteI feel like reading across documents is hard for the EC students because they are just learning to listen to a story and pick out what the main idea may be. When I think of this for our little ones, I think of our school counselor who comes once a week and reads to the students. Most of the time it is more than just reading and telling something that happened, it is about taking the meaning of the story and critically thinking it through. Most of the time it is manners books in which she relates to their classrooms. She gets students to talking about things that have happened to them and relating their difficulties to the story. It takes reading to a higher level.
I use peer tutoring in my class especially if I am busy with one student and another needs help on an assignment, I use them to help the student better understand. I think it does help students when they learn from each other on both ends. The one that is teaching is helping him/her understand it even better and then they are also helping another student in their language. I know sometimes I have had students teach it a little bit different and the student then gets it.
ReplyDeleteI do not use reading across document much in my classroom, although I can see how it could be beneficial. The student being able to apply the knowledge would be very helpful but we are usually working on simple comprehension questions or doing an assignment for a single article.
Last year when I was researching materials on effective math instruction/assessment, peer tutoring was a recommended strategy. Students who are able to explain the math lesson to a peer, learn the process better themselves. In the building I work, teachers used to have a paraprofessional in their classroom for both their math and reading blocks. Due to budget cuts, they only have a para during reading. I'd like to see them use more peer tutoring to fill this gap.
ReplyDeleteI was observing in a kindergarten classroom and they were reading and discussing different versions of the Three Little Pigs. The teacher even read a story to them from the wolf's perspective. What a great way to get students to analyze multiple texts and think critically at an early age.
I think peer tutoring is beneficial for the peer tutor because being able to explain and teach things to someone else makes you learn something in an entirely different way than when you’re on the receiving end of things. I don’t think I ever truly grasp this until I would try to explain something to another person, and I would just sit there stumped for a little while thinking, “How do I even begin to share this in a way that’s understandable???” Additionally, on the other hand, I think peer tutoring is great for the person being taught as well. I feel like a peer might be able to give more relatable examples or explain various concepts in a language that’s more easily grasp by another student than when a teacher is trying to do the same thing. The most recent occasion I’ve seen this strategy utilized is in a 2nd grade classroom. The teacher taught a particular concept, then had the students partner up. One student would re-teach the other student what he/she had learned, and then they would switch roles.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the idea that the book gave about the 2 respected teachers purposefully presenting their students with 2 completely opposing views on a topic, so that they would need to engage in further investigation and analysis before forming their own opinions on the topic. The way I see reading across documents being used most often is when students are researching various information to complete projects and reports. Within that process, I also think it’s very important for the students to be able to evaluate the sources that they’re using, which is also a much needed skill that will serve them well in the world we’re living in now.
Peer tutoring has an effect size of .55. How can you use it to promote student learning? Peer tutoring can be used to promote student learning by providing the students the opportunity to take ownership and a leadership role in their learning. Students love to play teacher. It also allows time to learn about miss-conceptions that the students may be having.
ReplyDeleteHow can you use reading across documents to promote transfer? Reading across documents can promote transfer by helping the material being learned seem more relevant. If information is seen multiple times and in multiple ways it makes more sense and has more meaning.
Peer tutoring can be a really great thing, if it is done effectively. When a student can teach or help another student, it demonstrates that they truly understand the concept. It needs to be a good pairing, however, and it should have rules so that each party knows what they need to do. I have seen it done in some classes, and both parties are resentful towards each other. Neither student wanted to work together and so it was very ineffective.
ReplyDeleteReading across documents helps students demonstrate an approach to analyzing texts, and it demonstrates higher level thinking skills. This is a concept that would be difficult for most of my students because of age and reading ability. I could totally see this being effective, though, in an upper level classroom.
Peer tutoring is very effective when it is done correctly. The text gave 3 guidelines for effective peer tutoring, including well structured, trained tutors, and different ages of tutor and tutee. This is something that we like to use at our middle school. We pair up students based on academic scores and teacher suggestions. Students in this program often improve their homework completion, but it does not always encourage diving into texts, concepts, or brainstorming. I think this would be more helpful if 8th graders did a reteach session with the 7th graders, rather than just check their tutee homework and help when needed.
ReplyDeleteReading across documents can be very helpful for developing critical thinking skills and bolstering the transference process. My students were recently asked to write argumentative research papers. Part of their research included looking up articles with conflicting view points. Many of my students really struggled with this concept as they tried to understand how people with opposite opinions could both be right. While the teacher and I helped them sort through the data and modeled questions they might ask the texts, I think this could have been a great opportunity for students to work in small groups, investigate, discuss, possibly debate about this information. By reading across texts, students are able to think critically and analyze information at a deeper level.
Peer tutoring is effective because 1. Students get to talk about what they know and talking about it helps reinforce their knowledge, 2. Talking about what they are learning makes students think more deeply about their base of knowledge and organize it into a useful form, 3. Students are more likely to take ownership of the process, 4. In talking to a peer, students are given opportunity to hear other points of view and hear examples that they may not have thought of on their own, and 5. It gives students, who might otherwise remain quiet, the responsibility of participation. To work well, peer tutoring would require explicit teaching regarding expectations.. Having an expected structure that was previously taught would help students understand expectations and get more benefit from the experience. We have used peer tutoring with peers of different ages and grade levels. If used in a classroom, it would allow teachers to have mixed pairings of students who were of differing levels, varying the pairings to help build relationships between peers and giving each student opportunity to learn.
ReplyDeleteReading across documents could provide students with conflicting points of view. In resolving the conflict in their own minds, they would need to analyze the credibility of the information sources read. It would give them opportunity to think critically about what they are learning and what they choose to believe. It might cause them to delve more deeply into other information in their search for truth. It might teach them that not everything they read is true and teach them to develop a healthy dose of skepticism in reading critically. In so doing, they might learn to think for themselves, a trait that would be of great benefit throughout their lifetimes.
Peer tutoring has an effect size of .55. How can you use it to promote student learning?
ReplyDeleteHow can you use reading across documents to promote transfer?
I think peer tutoring is a great tool. It's helpful for the student who is being taught as they get to receive the information in a different way that might be helpful. It's also helpful for the "teacher" who gets to learn the skill on a deeper level to be able to turn around and teach it to someone else. A lot of People, myself included, learn much more from teaching a skill than having it be taught too us.
As far as reading across documents my students are not there yet. The kids I have for ELA are working through a phonics curriculum.