Mindful of Others

By Suzanne Brady

This text discusses how Brady has helped students take responsibility for their education and the education of their peers through mutual understanding, and through learning to ask and answer questions as generative and collaborative teaching strategies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435083562
• ISBN13: 9780435083564
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.5"

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In the early 19th centuary Joseph Lancaster used peer tutoring to provide affordble humane schooling. That method fell into disrepute due to the wrote nature of learning observed. Without reference to the past, the authors developed a peer tutoring method from the "writers workshop" system. Their focus being to improve the quality of critical reasoning and creative writing in modern first world elementary/primary school classes. Their method has fundamental similarities to both the Lancastrian system, and to the use of senior students as tutors in the Oxbridge system at university level. They report plausible results showing substantial improvements in learning by ordinary ten year olds in Hawaii. The outcome would suggest that pre-teen children are capable of much greater responsibility and intellectual activity than is commonly supposed. It would appear that, with appropriate use of social "scaffolding", mutual peer tutoring can produce results otherwise attainable only by unaffordably low pupil:teacher ratios.