ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the importance of training and utilizing support personnel in physical education programs. Peer tutoring occurs when a same-age or older student without a significant disability instructs, gives feedback, and supports a student with a disability. A peer tutoring program can improve the level of skills, socialization, and acceptance of students with disabilities. Unidirectional peer tutoring means that the trained peer tutor teaches the entire time, and the student with a disability remains the student in the pair. In bidirectional, or reciprocal, peer tutoring, the teacher pairs a student with and a student without a significant disability in a dyad. Class-wide peer tutoring is unique because all students receive task cards to keep them focused on the objectives of the lesson. cross-aged peer tutor is more effective than a same-aged peer tutor when the student is very young or if the disability is more severe and the student is in need of a more mature tutor.
