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Toskas, Denny – NASSP Bulletin, 1987
Outlines a student tutoring program called SAILS (Student Assistance in Learning and Support) that helps students who have chronic difficulties in mathematics, reading, English, and with personal problems. (MD)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Remedial Instruction, Secondary Education
Ponzio, Richard C.; Peterson, Kenneth D. – 1997
There are several educational, social, and economic trends that converge to increase the need to understand how adolescents can best become more involved in the education of younger children. Many educators have pointed to the benefits of the rich and complex learning that occurs during cross-age tutoring. Current reforms in public school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching
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Henriques, Marlene E. – Young Children, 1997
Presents the use of cross-age tutoring to enhance literacy in kindergarten students. Covers benefits of the approach in comparison to other methods. Describes tutor and tutee selection, frequency and length of tutoring, tutor training, tutoring session format, evaluation, and problems encountered. Discusses results, including increased emergent…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
Zajano, Nancy; Hubbard, W. Donald – 1975
A field test of "Guiding Older Children As Tutors," one of the four motivational-instructional procedures of Individually Guided Motivation (IGM), was used in two Milwaukee, Wisconsin schools. A total of 34 tutees, 22 tutors, and 24 adults participated in the field test during the 1972-73 school year. The field test objectives sought an increase…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Motivation, Motivation Techniques
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Ramig, Linda N.; Ramig, Christopher J. – 1976
This research study was designed to investigate whether tutors and tutees derive any benefits from tutoring. Two classes of fifth graders and two classes of third graders were the subjects in this experiment. One class each of fifth graders and third graders was randomly divided into tutor and study-alone categories. The other classes served as…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement
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Topping, Keith J.; Bryce, Angela – Educational Psychology, 2004
Outcomes for methods to accelerate thinking skills involving some peer interaction have been more consistently positive than those for purely teacher-directed or materials-led methods. However, methods involving mainly or only peer interaction are rare. This paper describes and evaluates such a method for peer tutoring in thinking skills, which…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Teamwork, Thinking Skills, Reading Skills
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This book is for the use of teachers, parents, and administrators who are planning to initiate a learning-by-tutoring project in their schools. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Bar-Eli, Nurith; Bar-Eli, Michael; Tenebaum, Gershon; Forlin, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 1998
Reports on three case studies of seventh-grade students teaching mathematics to third-grade students, in place of their classroom teacher, applying the Learning Through Teaching method. Discusses performance results for both tutors and tutees and restrictions on the scope of results. Concludes that tutoring benefits tutors more than tutees. (DSK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
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Lazerson, David B. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2005
Concerned professionals in the juvenile justice field frequently express concern for effective programs that help youth offenders successfully rejoin society. This mixed-method pilot study involved detention home teens functioning as tutors for special education students in a public school. Tutors were selected who, based on previous assessment as…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Pilot Projects
Anderson, Linda Brown – Teaching Pre K-8, 2007
Tutoring has long been recognized as superior to group instruction, especially for students with special needs. Tutors can adapt instruction to the learner's pace, learning style and level of understanding. Feedback and correction are immediate. Basic misunderstandings can be quickly identified and corrected. Tutoring also has emotional benefits:…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Special Needs Students, Psychological Needs, Group Instruction
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
Cross age tutoring is the subject of this document. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This document, one of a series of seven on this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Program Design
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Mavrogenes, Nancy A.; Galen, Nancy D. – Journal of Reading, 1979
Reviews research which indicates that cross-age tutoring is successful and presents suggestions for implementing cross-age tutoring projects. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Reading Instruction
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Jackson, Vivian Copeland; Riessman, Frank – Theory Into Practice, 1977
The author describes an elementary school "each one teach one" tutoring program in Harlem, New York. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of establishing acceptance and credibility before full program implementation can be successful. (MJB)
Descriptors: Credibility, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Inner City
Cairo, Leslie, III; Craig, Jim – Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
Peer tutoring and cross-age tutoring are two student-to-student tutoring methods. Peer tutoring occurs when tutors and tutees are of the same age. Cross-age tutoring refers to older students tutoring younger students. Studies of cross-age tutoring have reported improved academic performance for both tutors and tutees. The present study was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Tutors, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Miciano, Remedios Z. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
To pilot a peer literacy program, a pretest-posttest study was conducted involving seventy (70) students from Arellano High School as tutees and 12 De La Salle University-Manila College of Education students as reading tutors. Though the results suggest the lack of impact of the Program on the Reading Grades of the tutees, the tutors' journals…
Descriptors: Tutors, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education, Pilot Projects
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