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About Peer Mentoring

Curricular Peer Mentoring is an effective collaborative learning strategy that gives students the opportunity to work together to delve deeper and more analytically into course content. 

This program focuses on the learning process, improves student engagement and builds stronger learning communities.   

Curricular Peer mentors work with their host instructor and peer mentoring instructor to create mentoring roles both inside the classroom and outside of classtime.  Mentors are guided through the mentoring process by their peer mentoring instructor and are educated in
inquiry-based learning theory and student engagement issues. 

Peer mentors are senior level students who are registered in a peer mentoring course that educates them while they enrich learning within a course they have already taken.  Peer mentors are NOT teaching assistants and do not have grading authority.  Rather, they are learning facilitators uniquely positioned to help guide their peers through the learning process.   

 

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