Volume IV: What works, what matters, what lasts

Peer-led Team Learning

21st Century Pedagogies

The PLTL Workshop model exposes undergraduates to methods of group study, provides facilitated help for students in courses where students tend to seek outside help, enhances students communication abilities, provides an active-learning experience for students, and creates a leadership role for undergraduates as peer leaders where they learn teaching and group-management skills.

Pioneers:

• David K. Gosser
  Professor of Chemistry
  City College of New York

• Pratibha Varma Nelson
  Professor & Department Chair of Chemistry
  Northeastern Illinois University

Essays, Stories & Reports:

• An Essay
  The peer-led team learning workshop model
  - Pratibha Varma Nelson, Professor & Department Chair of Chemistry- Northeastern Illinois University

Resources from other sources:

• PLTL Model
  "The workshop model originated from the concern that students were not attaining their maximum potential for learning, in understanding and interest in chemistry under the prevalent relatively passive lecture model of teaching"

  • Peer-led Team Learning
    The PLTL Workshop model engages teams of six to eight students in learning sciences, mathematics and other undergraduate disciplines guided by a peer leader. The PLTL Workshop model:

    • provides an active learning experience for students
    • creates a leadership role for undergraduates
    • engages faculty in a creative new dimension of instruction.

  • Peer-led Team Learning: A Handbook for Team Leaders and Peer-led Team Learning: A Guidebook
    A guide for team leaders that includes research articles, articles regarding the implementation of PLTL, and evaluation materials.

  • Peer-led Team Learning Evaluation of Performance