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Role of the Peer Tutor:
The main role of a peer tutor is to assist students with disabilities
become included in everyday life at high school. The peer tutor is there
to enhance students’ with disabilities participation in the same
activities as their non-disabled peers. The role varies according to program
characteristics and what individual students need.
The peer tutors can accompany students with disabilities into general
education classrooms, lunch, assemblies, field trips, job sites, community
experiences, school supervised extra-curricular activities and clubs,
and any other activity that occurs in high school. The peer tutor can
assist students with disabilities with assignments, learn important skills
together, and help students with disabilities learn appropriate social
behaviors.
The peer tutor will follow the directions of the special education and
regular education teachers, will adapt assignments (always under the supervision
of the teacher) as needed, and provide support for student to whom he
or she is assigned. The peer tutor is not a discipline figure or a supervisor
of students with disabilities. The peer tutor is a role model, who both
assists and learns with students with disabilities.
Roles and Responsibilities
Role of the Student with a Disability
Role of the Special Education Teacher
Role of the Regular Education Teacher
Role of Administrator/ Counselor