When I was assigned a partner who is a peer educator for the Writing and Critical Inquiry course, I was excited since I believed we would discover three similarities and differences relatively fast. At our meeting about the discussion of the presentation, Rebekka and I were coming up with a large number of differences in our roles but found it hard to find common traits for comparing them.
Among the few uniformities in our roles, the one we discovered instantly was that both of us are required to attempt the homework being assigned to the students beforehand. We agree with our faculty advisors when they state that completing the assignments earlier helps us learn from our mistakes and prepares us for possible errors that the students might also repeat. For BITM 215 specifically, the Teaching Assistants are requested to record the errors of their attempts on a shared document to highlight repetitive mistakes and discover bugs in the software …show more content…
This results in different methods of student learning and peer educator guidance as well. These were also mentioned in the second reading for the course (The Role of Peer Educators) where it compared child and adult learners through pedagogy and andragogy. “In a pedagogical environment, learning is based on memorizing or rote. Nevertheless, in an andragogical environment, learning generally occurs by relating the new information with the learners’ lives” (Akin, 2014). Since it is less likely that freshmen have personal experiences related to the course material, it could be challenging for peer educators to explain its applications of the same while promoting the benefits of its knowledge in the long run. On the contrary, involved upperclassmen attempt to gather their relevant experiences utilizing the course material and are motivated to apply the
Among the few uniformities in our roles, the one we discovered instantly was that both of us are required to attempt the homework being assigned to the students beforehand. We agree with our faculty advisors when they state that completing the assignments earlier helps us learn from our mistakes and prepares us for possible errors that the students might also repeat. For BITM 215 specifically, the Teaching Assistants are requested to record the errors of their attempts on a shared document to highlight repetitive mistakes and discover bugs in the software …show more content…
This results in different methods of student learning and peer educator guidance as well. These were also mentioned in the second reading for the course (The Role of Peer Educators) where it compared child and adult learners through pedagogy and andragogy. “In a pedagogical environment, learning is based on memorizing or rote. Nevertheless, in an andragogical environment, learning generally occurs by relating the new information with the learners’ lives” (Akin, 2014). Since it is less likely that freshmen have personal experiences related to the course material, it could be challenging for peer educators to explain its applications of the same while promoting the benefits of its knowledge in the long run. On the contrary, involved upperclassmen attempt to gather their relevant experiences utilizing the course material and are motivated to apply the