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Dr.
Carolyn Hughes
Principal Investigator
Department
of
Special Education
P.O. Box 328
Peabody College
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37203
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Buddy Overview
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Peer Buddy Course
Description
Metropolitan
Nashville Public Schools
Course
Description:
Course #SST5800Y(F)(S)
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This
course is designed to enable students to develop peer relationships
while acting as peer buddies and positive role models for students with
special needs. The buddies will receive instruction about various types
of disabilities and learning problems, instructional techniques for
students with disabilities, and ideas on how to help increase the social
skills, interactions, and participation of their peers with special
needs in the day to day activities at their school and in their
community. The course can be taken as an elective for 1/2 credit per
semester, one class period per day. The maximum number of credits that
typically can be received in the course is two.
Qualifications:
Students
must meet the following criteria: (a) an interest in the peer tutoring
program, (b) an adequate GPA, (c) good attendance, (d) a recommendation
from a teacher or counselor, and (e) their program of studies allows for
an elective course (preferably 11th and 12th graders).
Requirements:
Students
acting as peer buddies will report daily to an assigned special
education teacher. The peer buddy, teacher, and partner will discuss and
decide on an activity or assignment in which the buddy and partner will
participate. The peer buddy will be required to keep a daily journal,
complete weekly and/or six-weeks assignments from the Peer Buddy
Handbook, and maintain good attendance.
Benefits
peer buddies may receive from the Peer Tutoring Course:
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They
will make new friends.
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They
will develop teaching and study skills.
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They
will practice academic and social skills.
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They
become advocates and learn valuable advocacy skills.
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They
are provided with realistic career exploration for education or human
service professions.
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They
gain an impressive extracurricular activity for college applications
or resumes.
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They
gain in self-esteem by knowing they have enriched other's lives.
General
Program Information
This
program has been approved by the Tennessee Department of Education. The
program is designed as a step toward inclusion and integration of all
students into the regular day to day activities of high school life.
McGavock High School was the first Metro school to participate in the
peer tutoring program in 1994. During the 1996-1997 academic school
year, the following high schools also participated in the program:
Glencliff, Hillsboro, Hillwood, Overton, and Stratford. The remaining
comprehensive high schools began offering the course in the 1997-1998
academic term.
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