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Peer-Led Team Learning: A Handbook for Team Leader (2nd Edition)
PeerLed Team Learning A Handbook for Team Leader - 2nd Edition Author:Vicki Roth, Ellen Goldstein, Gretchen Marcus Peer-Led Team Learning is an innovate model in science education. Student leaders (peers) guide the activities of small groups of students in weekly Workshop meetings. The students work through challenging problems that are designed to be solved cooperatively. The peer leaders are trained to ensure that the students are actively and produ... more »ctively engaged with the material and with each other. This methodology offers a number of educational opportunities: the supportive format encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding; students learn to work in teams and to communicate more effectively; peer leaders learn teaching and group management skills.« less