Category: Randy Isaacson

In the early ‘80s I changed the regular tests in my Educational Psychology class and added a set of more challenging questions to each test.  Some of the students were troubled while others enjoyed the questions and often hung around after the test to talk with me about the challenge.  After the final exam I invited the “challenge students” to have lunch and asked them if they would like to help me the next semester to teach my class how to study for the tests; they jumped at the chance! In a couple semesters these peer mentors earned their own “official discussion groups.”  In a couple years the Peer Mentor Program in my Educational Psychology class became established and known across campus.  Eventually this program was expanded to a freshman class for potentially at-risk freshman with a peer mentor in a leadership role in each class.  Why did these programs work? Continue reading "How Peer Mentors Might Help"

Sorry for the long FirstAnAmateur delay.  I don’t have an excuse, but I do have a New Year’s Resolution with some help from my peer mentor colleagues.  If you have followed my blog from the start you know that I began a Peer Mentor Program (PMP) in March 2016.  I have referred to the PMP many times, but my 2021 resolution is to bring the PMP and the peer mentors into the blog.  The peer mentors have had a big impact on my photography and also helped me explore how a group of amateur photographers can work together to improve their photography … and enjoy it along the way. Continue reading "2021 Learning from/with the Peer Mentors"