List and explain at least four reasons why peer tutoring should be used in classrooms that include students with disabilities
What will be an ideal response?
Some possible responses are:
• The procedures promote more active student responding, which is directly linked to higher achievement
• Peer tutoring is based on scientific research.
• It is effective in impacting academic and affective areas at all age/grade levels for students with learning disabilities and behavioral disorders as well as other at-risk populations including English Language Learners.
• Both teachers and students appear to like peer tutoring.
• Students have more opportunities to correct errors, are given immediate feedback, and are exposed to more social and academic support than in teacher-mediated instruction.
• Peer tutoring is another way to accomplish individualized instruction.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
As a high school music teacher plays a recording of Ferde Grofé's symphony Grand Canyon Suite for his class, he asks his students to visualize scenes that Grofé tried to capture with music: a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, a burro ride down a winding trail, a thunderstorm, and so on. From a Vygotskian perspective, this lesson could best be described as:
a. Guided participation b. A mediated learning experience c. A lesson at students' actual developmental level d. A lesson at students' level of potential development
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