Read more
Informationen zum Autor Tania Smith is assistant professor of communications studies in the Department of Communication and Culture and has been involved in developing peer mentoring programs, hosting peer mentors, and teaching peer mentors across the University of Calgary since 2005. With a background in English literature, rhetoric and writing studies, she has studied innovative program and course development involving service-learning, mentoring and other forms of collaborative learning. She has co-authored with two senior peer mentors a textbook titled Curricular Peer Mentoring: A Handbook for Undergraduate Peer Mentors Serving and Learning in Courses (Trafford, 2009) and is author of a 2008 Innovative Higher Education article on the pilot year of the arts peer mentoring program. Klappentext 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 MentoringPrograms will provide educators with concepts, examples, and findings useful for program development, innovation and enhancement. Contributors describe an international and interdisciplinary set of programs from the perspectives of program administrators, instructors, students and teaching assistants, while the editor reviews four decades of research, incorporating examples into theory and practice sections. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The History and Scope of Curricular Peer Mentoring ProgramsTania S. SmithChapter 1: Defining Features of Curricular Peer Mentoring ProgramsTania S. SmithChapter 2: Discipline-Focused Peer Mentoring: Peer Teaching in Biology at the University of British ColumbiaCarol PollockTheory and Practice: Lave and Wenger on Communities of PracticeTania S. SmithChapter 3: 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. JohnsonTheory and Practice: Student EngagementTania S. SmithChapter 4: Peer Mentoring in Large-scale First-year Programs: Academic Peer Mentors in First-year Courses at the University of Texas at AustinJennifer L. SmithTheory and Practice: Tinto and Wenger on Learning CommunitiesTania S. SmithChapter 5: Peer Mentoring in a Technical Institution: Undergraduate Mentoring in Software EngineeringSanjay GoelTheory and Practice: Vygotsky's and Bloom's TheoriesTania S. SmithChapter 6: Hosting Peer Mentors in a Senior Interdisciplinary Course: Notes from a Pre-History of Peer Mentoring at the University of CalgaryMarcia Jenneth EpsteinTheory and Practice: Bruffee on Collaborative LearningTania S. SmithChapter 7: Supporting Peer Mentors: Recruiting, Educating and Rewarding Peer MentorsKate Zier-Vogel and Andrew BarryTheory and Practice: Peer Mentor Education Through Service-LearningTania S. SmithChapter 8: Case Studies of Conflict and Collaboration: Supporting Teaching Assistants Who Work with Peer MentorsBryanne YoungTheory and Practice: Teaching Teams with Graduate and Undergraduate AssistantsTania S. SmithConclusion: Program Development and SustainabilityTania S. Smith...
