Supercharge your math class
with data-driven peer tutoring
Assign pre-made quizzes to assess mastery and instantly determine the best pairings across your math classroom. Then print materials customized for each pair. Minimal prep. No grading required.
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With PeerTeach, every student gets 1-on-1 help from a peer
Improve math confidence
Give students the opportunity for productive struggle with a peer they trust. Watch them go from “I don’t know” to “I’ll give it a try” - first in their tutoring sessions, and then whole class!
Teach collaboration skills
Assign modules from our library of research-backed trainings that teach students how to help their peers. Skills include eliciting prior knowledge, probing for reasoning, and revoicing peer ideas.
Measure student growth
Pair students who need help with those who have mastery. Half the students get 1-on-1 support while the other half learn more through teaching.
Student-led review in 5 steps
Students engage in a single, 45-minute self-guided training to learn 3 core teaching strategies: eliciting information, probing for reasoning, and revoicing peer thinking. Through the year, they continue improving their skills with add-on trainings.
Choose Common Core topics that students learned last week, last month, or last year. Preview and edit PeerTeach’s assessment items for each topic, and then assign a short quiz to students in our gamified platform.
View mastery levels in a simple stoplight (red-yellow-green) format. PeerTeach will use the data to create pairings for all of your chosen topics. You can even specify which students should and shouldn’t work together.
Edit and print materials customized for each pair, and then pass them out in class for a 20-minute peer tutoring session. Each worksheet contains helpful tutoring tips and carefully curated problems of increasing difficulty.
Students take a 6-minute exit ticket and rate the interaction with their partner. PeerTeach measures growth and learns how to create better pairings for next time. It even balances roles over time so that every student gets opportunity to tutor.
Teachers use PeerTeach to…
Fill gaps from past years
Give a diagnostic and then PeerTeach to review important skills.
Review for a big exam
Assess what students remember and then PeerTeach in the days before the exam.
Problem: When helping peers, students too often over-explain or give away answers.
Background: Decades of research show that “learner-centered” teaching methods produce mastery for the tutee.
Solution: We developed online trainings to help students adopt three teaching moves: eliciting information, probing for reasoning, and revoicing ideas.
Methods: We tested efficacy with two randomized control trials (RCTs) with 198 middle school math students. Half of the students received a PeerTeach training while the other half received a more traditional tutor training.
Results: Teaching behaviors changed substantially for the PeerTeach group, resulting in a statistically significant increase in tutee learning. Students taught by trained peers achieved 30% higher test scores than students taught by more traditionally trained peers.
Students learn 30% more when taught by trained peers
Kathleen Garvey, 8th Grade Math Teacher
“When you teach something the first time, not everybody gets it. PeerTeach is great for students that need extra time with material or need to have it explained in a different way. And everyone else really relearns the material by teaching it!”
