Peer Learning Overview

Free Peer Learning is offered to all AAP students who want to strengthen their abilities to think critically and independently, read analytically, write well, reason quantitatively, and study effectively while mastering course materials. Every year, we train over 100 Peer Learning Facilitators (mostly successful upper division AAP students) to work as Peer Learning facilitators and to serve as academic role models. The Center provides Peer Learning Workshops to almost 2,000 AAP students every week. AAP Peer Learning workshops offer students an opportunity to shape their own educational experiences - and to excel. The Peer Learning Unit builds on the premise that critical thinking and intellectual independence are developed through questioning and dialogue. Most of our Peer Learning sessions take place in small groups of three to twelve students. This setting fosters discussion and allows students to listen to, grapple with, and articulate new perspectives. It enables students to work collaboratively, helping them to see that they can rely on classmates as well as Peer Learning Facilitators; it helps students develop the tools necessary for scholarly inquiry. We treat writing as a process of ongoing revision, teaching students to critically evaluate and edit their own writing.

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