Peer Education Skills
Making eye contact and using non-verbal cues such as nodding while your student is speaking are examples of this communication skill.
What is active listening?
Some readings can be long and complex with many small details, which can lead to confusion. Pulling these out of the reading can help students understand the overall point.
What are main ideas?
This is what you should do if you are unsure of how to answer a student's question.
What is be honest/learn alongside your student/make a referral?
This is where you would refer a student if they tell you they need help in their calculus class.
What is the Math Assistance Center (MAC)?
This is the ineffective way to check for understanding.
What is do you understand/does that make sense?
Concept maps are a good way to help students develop this crucial skill.
What is critical thinking?
The average adult cannot focus for more than 30 minutes at a time. This technique has the individual study for short chunks of time with breaks in between.
What is The Pomodoro Technique?
This is something you should never use during a session with a student.
What is your cellphone?
You might suggest a student go here if they tell you they are feeling extremely anxious about school.
What is the University Counseling Center?
This is the general rule of thumb for how long thinking time should be after you pose a question.
What are seven seconds?
These are personal and professional principles that guide you as a peer educator.
What are ethics?
A time management strategy where a student decides to review materials and complete assignments on the same day each week.
What is a permanent to-do list/reviewing routine?
You should do this if you run into any issues or concerns.
What is communicate with your supervisor?
You would refer a student here if they mention that they have a paper due soon that they're worried about.
What is the Writing Center?
This is a hierarchical framework for organizing educational concepts.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
Taking time prior to learning new information to think about what you already know and how you learned it most effectively is an example of this.
What is metacognition?
While not a study skill, helping your students to improve this can have an effect on how motivated or enthusiastic they are in approaching academic tasks.
What is positive attitude/feelings towards their education?
If you see a student who you've tutored in a social setting, you shouldn't do this.
What is initiate a conversation regarding your tutor/tutee relationship?
You notice the student you are working with seems to be struggling with time management, so you might refer them here.
What is Academic Coaching?
This a commonality between the four learning theories.
What is collaboration/relating topics to personal experiences or prior knowledge/ engaging students in process?
This is the act of guiding a learner through tasks by taking charge of the tasks that are beyond the student's initial abilities.
What is scaffolding?
A metacognitive skill that allows students to gauge their level of knowledge and assess their use of study skills in preparation for an exam.
What is self-testing?
Doing this while tutoring an introductory course will most likely only further confuse your student.
What is teaching advanced problem-solving techniques?
You would refer your student here if they mention they have an upcoming speech they are worried about.
What is the Oral Communications Lab?
This approach to care and communication promotes a culture of safety, empowerment, and healing, switching the language from "what did you do?" to "what has happened to you?"
What is Trauma-Informed Care?