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Summary: Peer tutoring involves one student learning material well enough to teach it to other students in the class. The peer tutor benefits from having to understand the material thoroughly. Excel as a peer tutor with tips from a professional tutor in this free video on education.
"What I think of peer tutoring. Peer tutoring is probably one of the best things you can do as a student to get your own understanding of the the material down pat. That is definitely doubtless an excellent tool to be used as a student. What you gotta' do is teach your neighbor in class how the excited electron states work; whatever, and in order to do that you need to have a full understanding of it cause' they're going to ask you questions; oh, well what about when this happens? You need to be like okay, well I'm not quite sure. Let's go to the book for the answer, or whatever. The there that is a really good way to test your, the thoroughness of your knowledge and the the detail of the picture you've painted yourself. So yeah, that's that's peer tutoring. It's an extremely useful tool as a student to be able to tell other people how something works. That means, that means pretty much you are then the teacher. That, to me is peer tutoring."