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Welcome!
This web site is being created with the purpose of providing a flexible
tool for high school special education teachers across the state to create,
implement, improve, and maintain effective peer tutoring programs within
their schools. There are, at present, at least 58 high schools in Kentucky
offering Peer Tutoring as an elective, for-credit course, as a means of
enabling peers without disabilities to interact with and to support students
with moderate and severe disabilities in all areas of high school life,
including general education classes, community-based instruction, and
other school activities.
You will find on-line, interactive learning modules (instructional units)
for peer tutors as an integral component of this site. Though we provide
suggestions for the use of these materials in a for-credit course, or
sequence of courses, each teacher must choose which materials to use in
his or her class and how the students will use those materials. Though
these instructional units can be downloaded and printed out, each unit
requires activities that can only be completed by the student accessing
the related Internet links. Thus, students are encouraged to work through
these units on-line.
You need not be a peer tutor or school employee to browse this site; feel free to visit and view the materials and information provided here at your leisure and convenience. If you wish to use any of the text or materials offered on this site in any effort consistent with the goals of this site, you are granted permission provided you acknowledge this site as the source.
This site is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Human Development Institute – University Center for Excellence, University of Kentucky and was developed in collaboration with the KY Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Morehead State University Department of Elementary, Reading, and Special Education.