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Undergraduate curricular peer mentoring programs : perspectives on innovation by faculty, staff, and students /

Whether or not a college currently offers a Supplemental Instruction program, uses peer leaders in First-year Learning Community, or assigns Peer Tutors to courses, Undergraduate Peer Mentoring Programs will provide educators with concepts, examples, and findings useful for program development, inno...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Smith, Tania, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2013.
Lanham, Maryland : 2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the history and scope of curricular peer mentoring programs / Tania S. Smith
  • Defining features of curricular peer mentoring programs / Tania S. Smith
  • Discipline-focused peer mentoring: peer teaching in biology at the University of British Columbia / Carol Pollock
  • Peer mentoring in a team-taught interdisciplinary course: engaging the 21st century student through peer-led learning / Tina Pugliese, Tamsin Bolton, Veronika Mogyorody, Jill Singleton-Jackson, Robert Nelson & Ralph H. Johnson
  • Peer mentoring in large-scale first-year programs: academic peer mentors in first-year courses at the University of Texas at Austin / Jennifer L. Smith
  • Peer mentoring in a technical institution: undergraduate mentoring in software engineering / Sanjay Goel
  • Hosting peer mentors in a senior interdisciplinary course: notes from a pre-history of peer mentoring at the University of Calgary / Marcia Jenneth Epstein
  • Supporting peer mentors: recruiting, educating and rewarding peer mentors / Kate Zier-Vogel and Andrew Barry
  • Case studies of conflict and collaboration: supporting teaching assistants who work with peer mentors / Bryanne Young
  • Conclusion: program development and sustainability / Tania S. Smith.