ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on purposefully organised types of peer tutoring – planned, prepared and implemented by the teacher for specific subjects, curriculum areas and concrete learning objectives. The most common form of peer tutoring is to have one tutor working with one or a few tutees. This is a positive characteristic, allowing for active engagement and individualised feedback. The peer tutor does not possess the same degree of experience, knowledge or expertise regarding the learning content and instructional skills as professional adult teachers. Another dimension used to distinguish between different approaches of peer learning is the type of ongoing interaction supporting learning. The peer relationship can be between students of the same age or of the same grade or class group – this is same-age peer tutoring. Aside from the various same-age peer tutoring programmes, some programmes engage older, cross-age peer tutors to academically support younger students.
