Peer Leader Program
Part-of-Term Precalculus with Peer-Led Learning Program
The National Science Foundation funded a STEP grant to provide students in Precalculus with peer-lead learning to enhance student achievement in high-risk courses through collaborative learning techniques. Precalculus courses will be accompanied by regularly scheduled out-of-class peer-facilitated study sessions. The new format will consist of 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of peer-led (PL) workshops per week.
What is a PL Workshop?
- PL-Workshops target high-risk courses instead of high-risk students.
- PL-Workshops are mandatory and open to all students in the class. Workshops are NOT remedial.
- PL-Workshops are active learning in small-size sections, group-based, lead by a peer-leader. They are NOT lectures or study group sessions, NOR are they remedial.
- PL-Workshops are proactive rather than reactive.
- PL-Workshops are dynamic, interactive, argumentative, and engaging.
- PL-Workshops begin the first week of class before students encounter academic problems.
Who are the peer-leaders?
- Peer-leaders are undergraduate students knowledgeable in course content and trained in specific teaching/learning theory and techniques.
- Peer-leaders attend classes with students, read assigned materials, take class notes, and conduct regularly scheduled workshops.
- Peer-leaders, rather than acting as lecturers or teachers, facilitate and encourage the group to process material.
Join the PL Team!
Fill out the
Peer Leader application . For more information, contact
Dr. Helmut Knaust
Bell Hall 219
hknaust@utep.edu
915-747-7002.