The Power of Peers in the Classroom : Enhancing Learning and Social Skills.

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Executive Function and Peer Mentoring: Fostering Metacognitive Awareness, Effort, and Academic Success -- Executive Function and Academic Performance -- Strengthening Executive Function Strategies with Peer Mentoring and Peer Coaching -- Promoting Executive Function and Peer Mentoring/Coaching across the Grades -- Metacognitive Awareness -- Goal Setting -- Cognitive Flexibility/Shifting -- Organizing and Prioritizing -- Accessing Working Memory -- Self-Monitoring -- The SMARTS Executive Function and Peer Mentoring Program -- Conclusions -- 2. Peer Interactions in the Content Areas: Using Differentiated Instruction Strategies -- Inclusive Classroom Instruction -- Content Areas: Science and History -- Why Differentiate Instruction? -- What Research-Based Strategies Should Be Used in the Content Areas? -- Designing Differentiated Instruction with Peers -- Differentiated Curriculum Enhancements -- Quality Instruction: PASS -- How Can Teachers Use the PASS Framework? -- Additional Peer-Mediated Strategies: Using Technology-Based DCEs -- Summary of DCE Studies -- Future Development of Additional Strategies -- Conclusion -- 3. "Thank You for Helping Me Write a Better Paper": Peer Support in Learning to Write -- The Need for Peer-Assisted Learning in Writing -- Characteristics of the Writing Processes and the Role of Peers -- Self‑Regulated Strategy Development -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- 4. Using Collaborative Strategic Reading to Promote Student Discourse -- Promoting Reading Comprehension with Peer Discourse -- The Importance of Strategy Instruction -- Collaborative Strategic Reading -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX 4.1. CSR diagram -- APPENDIX 4.2. Leader Role Card -- APPENDIX 4.3. Clunk Expert Role Card.

APPENDIX 4.4. Gist Expert Role Card -- APPENDIX 4.5. Question Expert Role Card -- APPENDIX 4.6. Learning Log -- APPENDIX 4.7. Learning Log Rubric -- APPENDIX 4.8. Teacher's Guide for the CSR Gist Collaboration Video Clip -- 5. Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies to Improve Students' Word Recognition and Reading Comprehension -- Overview of PALS Reading -- PALS Programs -- Implementing PALS Reading -- Conclusion -- 6. Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies in Mathematics -- Overview of PALS Math -- PALS Math Programs -- Pairing Students -- Implementation of PALS Math -- Conclusion -- 7. Maximizing the Benefits of Working Cooperatively with Peers -- What Is "Small-Group Instruction"? -- Benefits of Working Cooperatively with Peers -- Lesson Qualities That Maximize Benefits for Students -- Suggested Solutions for Common Problems in Cooperative Learning Arrangements -- Incorporating Other Educational Professionals -- Conclusion -- 8. Peer-Supported Instruction for English Learners -- Increase in Student Diversity -- Benefits of Peer Support for English Learners -- Designing Peer-Supported Activities -- A Classroom Scenario: Envisioning Peer Supports in the Classroom -- Implementing Research-Based Peer-Supported Instruction for English Learners -- Conclusion -- 9. The Power of Preschool Peers to Influence Social Outcomes for Children with Special Needs -- Young Children with Social Delays -- Studies That Set the Stage for Peer-Mediated Intervention -- Laying the Groundwork for Peer-Mediated Instruction -- Strategies for Promoting Social Interactions -- Play Activities for Promoting Social Interactions -- Peer-Mediated Strategies: The Social Skills Curriculum -- Lessons Learned about Peer-Mediated Interventions -- Research Findings -- APPENDIX 9.1. Sample Script: Getting Your Friend's Attention -- APPENDIX 9.2. Sample Script: Sharing-Giving to a Peer -- Index.

Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling learners and those with disabilities. This highly practical book is one of the few resources available to guide classroom teachers and special educators in the application of peer-assisted instructional strategies in grades K-12. Expert contributors describe evidence-based approaches for building students' skills in reading, writing, math, and other content areas, as well as social competence and executive functioning. Sample lessons and more than a dozen reproducible tools are provided. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.