Name:_________Kaylee Mitchell______________ Hour:_______5_______ Peer Tutor Handbook Assignment #1 Inclusion/Curriculum Instructions: Read Pages 1-5 in the Peer tutor handbook and Answer the questions that follow. 1) “In Plain Language” what is a peer tutor? A peer tutor is a student without a disability that supports and helps a student with a disability. 2) List 4 things that inclusion IS? Inclusion IS includes having a student included in all of the regular facets of school life‚ students
Premium Education Learning Disability
The Pressure to Conform in Our Society When I think of how I have been pressured to conform throughout my life the first thing that comes to mind is peer pressure. I have known peer pressure‚ but‚ upon further reflection‚ I realize that for many years‚ I was fairly sheltered from negative peer pressure. There have been two groups that have consistently put more pressure on me to conform than my peers ever did. I have had more pressure to conform though out my life from my family and school administrators
Premium Peer pressure Peer group Adolescence
installed at Berkley High School and it fits so perfectly in its place‚ it seems it was always meant to be there. On a recent winter evening‚ over 30 students from the school’s Peer Mentorship Club gathered at Cana Lutheran Church to work as team to create the mural that now hangs in the Berkley High Library Media Center. The Peer Mentorship Club brings general education students and students with special needs together in a relaxed social atmosphere both on and off campus. Although its considered an
Premium Education Student University
PTSD: Veteran’s Perspectives on Peer Support’s Benefits and Drawbacks The Department of Veteran’s Affairs has recently augmented their existing care for Veterans’ suffering from PTSD with peer support groups. This brief report discusses Veterans’ perspectives on the benefits and drawbacks of peer support as an additional source of treatment for PTSD. PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster‚
Premium Psychology United States Department of Veterans Affairs Posttraumatic stress disorder
Stonehill which have motivated and prepared you to be an effective Peer Mentor. Last June I was extremely nervous for my journey ahead at Stonehill College. When touring the school‚ I was very comfortable on campus and felt the school would be perfect for what I wanted in a college‚ but I was still very anxious of the unknown. At orientation I was placed with a random group of people and slowly got to know each and every one of my fellow peers. The entire experience was so informational and comforting
Premium Education English-language films High school
respective parents. The evidence of the changes in peer and parent-child relationships during early adolescence suggests that early adolescence is a critical period of transformation in children’s relationships. Early adolescents may orient toward peers while distancing themselves from their parents because their peer relationships fit some of their developmental needs better than their relationships with their parents. The waxing of peer orientation and the waning of closeness with parents‚ however
Premium Developmental psychology Adolescence Attachment theory
I believe that a peer mentor is a student who is willing to be a helping hand for their peers. They are available to provide support‚ guidance‚ or just be an approachable companion. They take pride in doing what it takes to better themselves and other’s around them. They are able to identify and accept their strengths and weaknesses and build upon them. I think it’s important for a peer mentor to be someone that isn’t selfish because you need to sacrifice your own time for others. They should be
Premium Education Teacher Learning
serval books on the culture of the United States. The article “College Pressures” is a magazine article about the struggle that college students go through. Zinsser has created and taught many writing classes at Yale University. With these writing classes‚ he was able to see the types of students and what they went though. Therefore he was able to write this article. Since this was written in 1979 do these principles of pressure that the author talks about still applied to college students today?
Premium University College High school
In science explain the necessity for peer-review and why sometimes there is resistance to new scientific theories. What is scientific peer review? Scientific peer review is the evaluation of scientific research findings or proposals for competence‚ significance and originality‚ by qualified experts who research and submit work for publication in the same field (peers). Most commonly‚ peer review is used by the editors of scientific journals‚ who ask well-qualified experts to provide written
Premium Scientific method Science Peer review
The four most important aspects of my role as a peer tutor would be showing leadership‚ communication‚ flexibility and having a positive impact on students. Each of these aspects are important and all contribute to my role as a peer tutor‚ without any of them I don’t think I would perform as well in the classroom. Showing leadership and having a positive impact on others have changed over the course of the semester. At the beginning of the semester my leadership skills weren’t as inclined as they
Premium Education Teacher Learning