Starting Your Own Program
- Recruiting your Peer Tutors
- Training your Peer Tutors
- Adapting to meet your school’s needs
To start your own program you need to recruit your Peer Tutors, train them, and then adapt to meet your specific needs for your school.
Recruiting Peer Tutors
- Sources for potential Peer Tutors
- Methods for recruiting
- Screening potential Peer Tutors
- Investing in future Peer Tutors
Sources for potential Peer Tutors
- Service Learning
- Teacher Cadets
- Friends of current Peer Tutors
- Siblings of past or current Peer Tutors
- Teacher recommendations
Methods for recruiting Peer Tutors
- Word of Mouth
- Flyers
- Thank You Cards
- Personal Invitations
Screening potential Peer Tutors
- References from teachers
- Check disciplinary record
- Ask administrator to review list before final registration
- Peer Tutor II requires a B average in Peer Tutor I
Investing in future Peer Tutors
- Speak to regular ed classes
- Service Learning
- Teacher Cadets
- Biology
- Partner with regular ed classes
- Special Olympics training partners
- Transition students audit a regular ed course with Peer Tutor
Training Peer Tutors
- Disabilities represented in your program
- Main components of your program
- Expectations for Peer Tutors
- Responsibilities of Peer Tutors
- Peer Tutor tune-ups
- “What if” scenarios
Disabilities represented in your program
- describe disabilities represented in general terms
- discuss the need for confidentiality among Peer Tutors
Main components of your program
- Supported Employment Training
- Community Based Instruction
- Apartment Living
- Social Skills
- Special Olympics
Expectations for Peer Tutors
- Appropriate behavior
- Attendance/punctuality
- Appropriate interactions
Responsibilities for Peer Tutors
- task analysis notebooks
- assignments
- Out of school activity
- Phone log
- Projects
“What if” Scenarios
- what we have learned in the past?
- what we anticipate happening in the future?
- drills on how to respond
Peer Tutor “Tune-ups”
- Areas to re-teach
- Revise procedures
- Fine tune problem areas
- Performed as needed
Adapting to Meet Your School’s Needs
- History of this program
- Reasons to adapt
- Example of adapting our program
History of Greer High Peer Tutoring Program
- Wilcox-Bellamy
- John Mauldin and Greer HS
- JL Mann High School
- Our program
- Your program
Reasons to Adapt
- fit the disabilities in your program
- fit the number of students in your program
- fit the number of Peer Tutors in your program
Example of adapting our program
- from year to year
- from month to month
- from day to day