One to OneTutoring: Cooperate toLearn with Sprouts Academy

 

Personalizing education is possible, you just have to find the right strategies that adapt to the characteristics of your school and your classroom. If you have a large number of students in the classroom, you want them to feel like protagonists of their own learning and learn significantly, with responsibility and motivation, read on!

Peer Tutoring: Two pairs who are teaching and learning from their respective peers.

Peer tutoring: peer learning

We know that learning does not depend solely on the teacher. In other words, learning does not consist of a unidirectional flow of knowledge, but rather of the teacher's ability to create learning situations in which students cooperate with their classmates and learn from each other. For this, one to one tutoring is a good strategy to carry out in the classroom. You dare?

One to one tutoring is a cooperative learning method based on the creation of pairs of male and female students, with an asymmetric relationship and with a common, known and shared objective that is achieved through a relationship planned by the teacher.

Two different types of one-to-one tutoring can be found:

Cross age tutoring: The pairs of male and female students comprise different ages. The oldest of them takes on the role of tutor, while the smallest will be the tutor.

Same age tutoring: The pairs of male and female students are the same age and are part of the same group or class. The tutorials can be fixed or reciprocal. In the first, the roles are stable, that is, the same student is always the tutor and the same student is tutored; on the other hand, in the latter, the roles are exchanged periodically.

With this educational strategy, the role of the teacher changes and its main functions are based on collaboration and assistance with individualized attention and the guidance and supervision of the educational action carried out by the student-tutor.

Benefits of peer tutoring

• Academic improvement for both the tutor and the tutored.
• It allows different levels of achievement: while for the tutor the activities can be reinforcement, for the tutor they can be deepening.
• Development of psychosocial skills: empathy, respect, assertive communication, interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution...
• Greater involvement in academic tasks by both parties.
• Greater sense of responsibility and self-esteem, especially for the tutor.
• Satisfaction and pride on the part of the tutor of the progress of the mentee and of the latter for their own learning.
• It allows attending to the diversity of the classroom or school.
• Improves the climate in the classroom, both among classmates and with teachers.
• It allows you to lose the fear of asking questions, of making mistakes, of being corrected...
• Improves the coexistence of the center, going to the tutor to resolve conflicts, doubts, to share feelings and emotions...
• It reduces bullying, since the tutor can also help resolve a conflict.

One-to-one tutoring help practices are very interesting because they give educational value to interactions between students, offer learning opportunities and develop values such as solidarity and sociability. However, we can also find certain inconveniences such as the information that the tutor explains to the mentee is not correct or that some part is not sufficiently involved in its role. For this, it is important that the teacher exercises her role correctly.

Know more about One to One Tutoring at Sprouts Academy Website