Chapter 4: Learning Strategies
29 Peer Supports
Your peers, both in your program and outside, are important to your experience and learning. Peers can help when you have questions about a shared class, give recommendations on classes and professors, to save you money by sharing resources (textbooks), listening to your experiences (good and bad) and sharing their own with you.
There are also academic peer supports available through Cambrian College. These often include peer tutoring and peer mentor programs. These programs will match lower-year students to upper-year students and task upper-year students with sharing their experiences, thoughts, and knowledge with the lower-year student.
This is mutually beneficial for both students involved because:
- The upper-year student is gaining valuable mentoring, teaching, and work experience
- The lower-year student is gaining real-world insight from a student who understands their needs and challenges
Learning From Your Peers
An important process is learning how to effectively study and work with your peers and classmates. Check out the article below for some tips on how you can make the most of this opportunity.
