student tutor; peer teacher
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student tutor; peer tutor
Commonly used in primary and secondary schools to refer to high-achieving students who help classmates with their studies.
The teacher selected three student tutors to help classmates with learning difficulties after school every day.
He has good math grades and often serves as a peer tutor, explaining problems to his classmates.
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The student tutor system can effectively promote mutual help and learning among classmates.
noun
student-teacher; one who teaches while learning
Historically associated with Tao Xingzhi's educational movement in the 1930s-40s, where students were encouraged to teach others what they learned, reinforcing their own knowledge while spreading literacy.
The "Little Teacher System" advocated by Tao Xingzhi allowed literate children to teach illiterate people.
During the Anti-Japanese War, student-teachers went from street to street and lane to lane, teaching common people to read and write.
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This student-teacher model of learning while teaching improved the popularization of education.