15. Peer Tutoring

Dalton’s High School Peer Tutoring Program embodies the collaborative spirit that makes Dalton students so successful.

From Calculus and Chemistry to Spanish and World History, peer tutors with different strengths and backgrounds are ready and willing to help! During my junior and senior year at Dalton, I was fortunate enough to be a tutor for the high school and middle school peer tutoring program.

As a tutor, I met weekly with other high school and middle school students throughout the semester to assist them with their studying, organizing, and conceptual understanding of course material. As a peer tutor, I also participated in a seminar to explore how to apply pedagogical practices, as well as principles of The Dalton Plan, to tutoring.

From my experience, the peer tutoring program — which began in 1995 — encapsulates the collaborative spirit that makes Dalton students so successful. Along with working closely with my tutees’ teachers and House advisors, I was able to provide guidance and suggestions to my tutees from my perspective as a fellow student. While peer tutoring is primarily an academic program, pairing students, usually of different ages, extends past coursework, enabling older students to take on a mentoring role on topics such as stress and other academic or social challenges. Peer tutoring, an invaluable resource, allows students with a range of experience to work together, for a positive, mutually beneficial outcome.

Peer tutoring not only allowed me to assist other students, but I also improved my own work. While tutoring highlighted my academic strengths, it also helped me approach my own studies more effectively and productively.
—Charlotte Rich ’16