Peer tutoring: a key element in the intercultural inclusive classrooms

Abstract

This paper presents a fixed tutoring between fixed peers experience carried out in a center of a small town of Castellón with students of third year of Preschool Education and students of sixth of Primary Education. The experience presented here follows a very marked procedure in which couples are formed, training sessions are given to the agents involved, the material is prepared and finally, tutoring sessions are carried out. After practice, as a tool for collecting information, a discussion group was held with the tutor students in order to know their opinion regarding the effect that the tutorials had on them. As shown in the results, the tutors indicate that participation in the tutorials has positively influenced the reading competence of their small classmates and in the patience and cohesion of the tutors group. Thus peer tutoring has been used to convert interactions between students from different courses into learning and growth opportunities, both academically and personally.