Peer Assisted Learning Strategies

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies. schools in the 21st century One promising approach is peer mediated instruction whereby children work together to support each other’s learning An advantage of peer mediation is that subgroups of children in the same classroom can operate on different levels of curricula and use different instructional PeerAssisted Learning Strategies.

PeerAssisted Learning Strategies June 2012 Page 1 WWC Intervention Report US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION What Works Clearinghouse Students with Learning Disabilities June 2012 File Size 688KBPage Count 22.

PeerAssisted Learning Strategies

BackgroundBenefitsCreate and Use The StrategyReferencesPeerAssisted Learning Strategies (PALS)is a classwide peer tutoring program Teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate The pair works on various activities that address the academic needs of both students Pairs change over time PALS can be used across content areas PALS does not require special reading materials and consequently enables teachers to use the reading material of their choice This offers teachers flexibility for incorporating PALS into various content areas More recently this technique has been implemented as a strategy for ELL students with LD The strategy provides direct opportunities for a teacher to circulate in the class observe students and offer individual remediation PALS therefore allows for differentiated instructionAn approach to teaching that includes planning out and executing various approaches to content process and product Differentiated instruction is used to meet the needs of student differences in readiness interests and learning needsvia having partners work simultaneously on various teacherdirected activities Create pairs within the classroom by identifying which children require help on specific skills and who the most appropriate children are to help other children learn those skills Each member of the teacherassigned pair takes turns being Coach and Reader These pairs are changed regularly and over a period of time as students work on a variety of skills Thus all students have the opportunity to be “coaches” and “players” Teachers train students to use the PALS procedures As the reader reads aloud the coach listens and provides corrective feedback The PALS technique is designed to be a 25 to 35 minute activity It should be implemented 24 times a week for effectiveness Award students points for good reading and coaching Fuchs D Fuchs L & Burish P (2000) PeerAssisted Learning Strategies An EvidenceBased Practice to Promote Reading Achievement Learning Disabilities Research and Practice 15(2) 8591 Fuchs L Fuchs D & Kazdan S (1999) Effects of peerassisted learning strategies on high school students with serious reading problems Remedial and Special Education 20(5) 309318 Saenz L Fuchs L & Fuchs D (2005) PeerAssisted Learning Strategies for English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities Exceptional Children (71) Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development (nd) PeerAssisted Learning Strategies Retrieved 2008 January 21 from http//kcvanderbiltedu/pals/.

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies

PeerAssisted Learning/ Literacy Strategies Program Description 1 PeerAssisted Learning Strategies and a similar program known as PeerAssisted Literacy Strategies are peertutoring programs that supplement the primary reading curriculum (Fuchs Fuchs Kazdan & Allen 1999 Mathes & Babyak 2001) This review uses the acronym PALS File Size 374KBPage Count 23.

PeerAssisted Learning Strategies

PeerAssisted Learning Strategies or PALS is a scientificallybased peermediated instructional program developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University PALS research employed multiple studies that incorporated randomized field trials resulting in the highest standards of researchbased evidence The strategic efficacy of PALS has been studied and evaluated over the past 35 years through close collaboration with hundreds of teachers to ensure that PALS’ methods are feasible and.