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  2. Peer-mediated instruction - Wikipedia

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    Teachers reviewed the top candidates, and selected the tutors based on social skills, language skills, school attendance and classroom behavior. The student or students chosen as peers must be properly coached before the peer relationship begins, both to understand the importance of the intervention and the methods which should be used.

  3. Adolescent clique - Wikipedia

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    This relationships is better predicted by self-esteem than the actual quality of the relationships, although also directly related to discordance in personal and peer ratings of status. [ 8 ] [ 21 ] This effect likely arises cyclically: troubled children are rejected by their peers for their undesirable behavior, while rejected children receive ...

  4. Peer learning - Wikipedia

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    For example, Eric Mazur and colleagues report on "Ten years of experience and results" with a teaching technique they call "Peer Instruction": Peer Instruction engages students during class through activities that require each student to apply the core concepts being presented, and then to explain those concepts to their fellow students. [16]

  5. Peer group - Wikipedia

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    Self-reports, peer nominations, teacher ratings, counselor ratings, and parent reports were collected, and results showed a strong correlation between deviant peer groups and sexual promiscuity. Many teens claimed that the reasons for having sex at a young age include peer pressure or pressure from their partner.

  6. Crowds (adolescence) - Wikipedia

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    For example, people may avoid being seen as a "brain," a middle-status crowd, because of the similarity between brains and "nerds," a lower-status crowd. [ 8 ] Shared interests form the basis of many friendships, so often adolescents are drawn to members of their own crowds, [ 9 ] especially if their crowd is defined by activities rather than ...

  7. Peer instruction - Wikipedia

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    Peer instruction is an evidence-based, interactive teaching method popularized by Harvard Professor Eric Mazur in the early 1990s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Originally used in many schools, including introductory undergraduate physics classes at Harvard University , peer instruction is used in various disciplines and institutions around the globe.

  8. Classroom management - Wikipedia

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    Classroom management is the process teachers use to ensure that classroom lessons run smoothly without disruptive behavior from students compromising the delivery of instruction. It includes the prevention of disruptive behavior preemptively, as well as effectively responding to it after it happens.

  9. Peer mentoring - Wikipedia

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    Peer mentoring in education was promoted during the 1960s by educator and theorist Paulo Freire: "The fundamental task of the mentor is a liberatory task. It is not to encourage the mentor's goals and aspirations and dreams to be reproduced in the mentees, the students, but to give rise to the possibility that the students become the owners of their own history.