Helping Others Learn & Succeed
In chapter eight of the book Students Helping Students, we read about the learning process and what contributes to students achieving academic success.
We see the importance of understanding how individuals approach the learning process and how each person does this act in different ways. By having peer leaders become informed about items such as active learning and learning theories, they become better suited in assisting these individuals during their learning process and help them achieve success academically.
For example, let say that I am a peer leader working with an individual who is struggling with their biology class and is starting to lose hope in actually passing the class. I must look at this student and ask myself the following questions?
- Does he/she have internal motivation?
- Does he/she have a confident attitude about his/her learning skills?
- How well does he/she manage time?
- What are these individual’s strengths?
Based upon the answers I obtain, I will be able to make a game plan on how to motivate this individual to want to succeed.
