Peer Tutors

Peer Tutors 全日制電腦學系同輩教師

Peer tutors are student leaders who tutor other, often junior, students. Empirical studies have found that peer tutoring is beneficial to both the tutors, the tutees and instruction as a whole, and so it has been implemented in an increasing number of universities around the world.

The duties of peer tutors include the following:

• Assist instructors in providing instruction individually or in small groups, under close supervision of instructors.
• Provide consultation in designated time slots.
• Assist instructors to perform clerical work related to a face-to-face course, including the design of web and online activities.

The peer tutoring scheme (同輩教師計劃) is designed to achieve multiple goals:

• Encourages weak junior students to seek help from their peers who would find that peer tutoring is less threatening and allowing them to establish a better rapport with the peer tutors.
• Provides senior students who aspire to pursue a teaching career in secondary and tertiary institutions an opportunity of teaching.
• Through teaching junior students their understanding of the subject area would also improve.
• Assists the programme team to provide more quality education to the students.