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Cross-Age Tutoring: When Fifth Graders Become Teachers of Writing
Anne Peralta
…I began to be
really curious about how this extensive tutoring program would
benefit my students. After all, I was giving up quite a bit of
learning time. I decided to use this opportunity as a subject for the
teacher research class I was taking at the University of Arizona. I
began by asking questions. What happens when fifth-grade students
become teachers of writing for kindergarten children? Will they treat
the younger children appropriately? Will the kindergarten students
learn from the fifth graders? How will the partnership affect the
different social/behavioral issues in the fifth-grade class? How will
the partnership affect the fifth graders’ desire and ability to
write? At what point, if any, will the students recognize the
connection between their work with the kindergarteners and their own
achievement in writing?
While I never
doubted that the kindergartners would benefit from this partnership,
I truly wondered whether the amount of time I was planning on taking
would be worth it for the development of the fifth graders.
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Cross-Age Tutoring: When Fifth Graders Become Teachers of Writing