Sánchez EML

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 45-57
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ABSTRACT

tutorship between equals has begun to be implemented in higher education as a suitable strategy to the development of programs of orientation with different goals such as: develop competences, encourage adaptation of the newcomer students, attention to students with academic problems and as support of the exchangeable programs, etc. It is important to emphasize that this modality has double benefits; on the one hand it helps students whose tutorials are given and in the second hand it benefits the same students who carry out the work of tutor. In this work a description of a program of peer tutoring is shown under a modality between equals applied to 8 students of medicine degree in their first semester in the UNAM and 8 students of psychology who participated as tutors, who received a course about tutorial training made of to develop professional competences organized in three dimensions: instrumentals competences, interpersonal competences and systematic competences. The peer tutoring is strategy of personalized orientation and cooperative learning to heed at risk population and develop personal and professional competences. The aim of this study is that double objectives are established, once focused on the professional training of tutors and the other of the tutorial program for students with low academic standards. The implementation of the program is in three stages, first one a tutor’s training workshop, second one the applied experienced methodology, in the third one the analysis of goals for both groups. In the results we can notice how the interaction between peer tutoring influenced in different aspects like: socialized process, academic performance improvements, and the acquire of different skills. Finally the activities and materials design for this program are discussed.

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