In April I received an email from iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) outlining the steps we needed to take to begin our 12 weeks of peer coaching and exactly whom from our class we were being paired up with.
In his own band Mr. Louis features a couple of peers from his class at the Monk Institute, which until last year was overseen by the trumpeter Terence Blanchard, a former Jazz Messenger and a major steward of young talent himself.
Within the interactive environment of online social networks, students may work together with peers from their class or from other courses both within and outside the regular class hours.
So, do we still want to ask: apart from maintaining our international reputation, empowering students, recognising diversity, reaffirming autonomy, facilitating user and peer scrutiny and establishing a peer-sourced world-class quality assurance framework – what has QAA ever done for us?
I was our class treasurer, a peer mediator, the captain of the volleyball team and a tuba player in the marching band.
OK, so a class of first-year undergraduates may seem a world apart from our peers at a scientific conference, and we might need to dumb down quite a lot to reach them with our message.
Read it aloud to your peers from class, your roommates, your parents, baby brother or family pet.
Of how much they've learned in our classes, or from their peers, or in the library.
In our classes, among our peers, and through our research, we are seeing that millennials are not so much a lost generation as a generation in flux.
"It was an acknowledgment from our peers that the show was good".
