January 31, 2010

Student to Student Math Tutoring in Garrison

Originally published by Charlotte Rowe in the Putnam County News and Recorder on 12/9/09

This fall, Garrison seventhgrader Samantha Perlman has been helping second-grader Ruby Howell with her math assignments. They play games such as Money Bingo and use chips and blocks to review concepts like addition and subtraction. Flashcards reinforce skills such as telling time and counting money.
The girls join a dozen other such pairs in the school library Wednesday afternoons as part of a new peer tutoring program launched this fall by Middle School math teacher Sevim Akhondzadeh. “In my years of fieldwork and teaching at Garrison,” she notes, “I have seen how some students grasp the concepts of math more easily when a peer explains it to them rather than a teacher.”
The program builds on a tutoring initiative applied last year in the school’s language arts curriculum based on the teacher resource text “Kids as Reading Helpers: A Peer Tutor Training Manual.” In the reading model, schools can assist struggling young readers by training older students to serve as peer tutors. The manual is made available to educators through Intervention Central, a website created in 2000 by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from central New York.

This fall, Garrison seventhgrader Samantha Perlman has been helping second-grader Ruby Howell with her math assignments. They play games such as Money Bingo and use chips and blocks to review concepts like addition and subtraction. Flashcards reinforce skills such as telling time and counting money.

The girls join a dozen other such pairs in the school library Wednesday afternoons as part of a new peer tutoring program launched this fall by Middle School math teacher Sevim Akhondzadeh. “In my years of fieldwork and teaching at Garrison,” she notes, “I have seen how some students grasp the concepts of math more easily when a peer explains it to them rather than a teacher.”

The program builds on a tutoring initiative applied last year in the school’s language arts curriculum based on the teacher resource text “Kids as Reading Helpers: A Peer Tutor Training Manual.” In the reading model, schools can assist struggling young readers by training older students to serve as peer tutors. The manual is made available to educators through Intervention Central, a website created in 2000 by Jim Wright, a school psychologist and school administrator from central New York.

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Filed under: Academic Learning Centers,K-8,Leadership,Peer-Tutoring

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