- Fostering diversity appreciation: Peer teaching

Peer tutoring were promoted by the teacher, by the student who had strong knowledge about the class subject and by one student who invited classmates to go to her home.

At the beginning, the purpose of tutoring was to help the students to the point reach the point where they become an independent learner and no longer need a tutor. Later, some of us were helping each other as a way to retain the content and having fun together.

The teacher fostered the use of memory cards so we could train each other for the tests. We did group studies, sharing mnemonics, commenting on quotes. One student was the assistant to computer classes. Combining empathy, honest, humor, safe environment and resources like flash cards, we helped each other and better understood the teacher’s challenges of dealing with diversity. We felt that "diversity awareness" and "empathy" was more helpful than "knowledge about the class content". The stories “Boring opening page” and “Excluding the Cree culture” are examples of this.

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