Chapter 13: Building Social Relationships

·         Social Skills- appropriate social behaviors and developing friendships

·         Peer Tutoring- a system of instruction in which pairs of students with relatively equal standing are given formal roles for promoting each other’s achievement.

·         Classwide Peer Tutoring- a researched program in which all the students in a class take on the rules of tutor and tutee in turn and follow a set of clear steps for helping each other to learn.

o   Resource: http://cecp.air.org/familybriefs/docs/PeerTutoring.pdf

o   This PDF document is actually a brochure for families that has information for classwide peer tutoring.  It includes general questions, information on what the teachers can do, what the parents can do, studies that prove its effectiveness, and even more resources on the approach.

·         Reciprocal Tutoring- both students alternate between the tutor and tutee roles.

·         Cross-age tutoring- older students tutor younger ones.

·         Cooperative learning- a strategy for achieving racial and cultural integration, assisting socially isolated learners, fostering inclusive education for students with disabilities and other special needs, and accommodating culture-based learning styles. 

o   Resource: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm

o   This website is useful because it describes exactly what cooperative learning is, why you should use it in your classroom, elements of cooperative learning, and examples of class activities that use cooperative learning.

·         Jigsaw Classroom- students are assigned to heterogeneous work groups.  Each member of the work group is also assigned to a separate expert group.  Work groups meet and decide which member to assign to which expert group.  Each member focuses on their expert topic, then after studying the material, then they come back together and teach the members of their original group the material.

o   Resource: http://www.jigsaw.org/

o   This website provides an overview of the technique, the history of the technique, tips on implementation, and even books and articles related to the technique. 

·         Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition- a cooperative learning program designed to help students in elementary and middle schools working on reading, writing, and other language arts.