Having a peer mentor in a classroom environment is very helpful when it comes to learning. Peer mentors can be very helpful with whatever it is your learning and can even be a good friend in the classroom environment. Peer mentors are upper class men who take a role in your class that is there to help you when you need it and even add their own little twist on the class.
The peer mentor that we have in our INQ class is Lee. Lee is a senior at southern Connecticut and gets to spend some time with us alone on Thursdays for 15 minutes before our teacher Jennifer comes in and recaps what we should have read or had prepared for class. Lee has a few exercises set out for us every time she comes to class and she is always prepared. These exercises are not only fun but they either get us all awake and moving or they really get us to start thinking.
Having a peer mentor kind of takes the a bit of stress off of the class because even though you have a teacher there to help you, knowing that you have someone that is around your age there to help you makes you feel even that much more comfortable. So far from my peer mentor I have learned a bit of critical thinking. Too not just look at the big picture, but actually to look around it, or outside the box as many people would say.
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