Talking to students is one of the most important skills that a peer educator must possess. The training experience provides us with the knowledge to better our relationship with our students. We are taught different tactics to reach out to the students. You should never make the student feel inferior, or make them feel like what they have to say is not important. For this reason we are given coffee cards and they must be used to buy a student coffee or a muffin to enjoy while we talk to them about their experience in college so far or what they may be struggling with.
Within a classroom there will always be two or three peer educators and it is crucial that they are all on the page and have laid out plans on how to reach certain students that may need a little more help. The benefit of having multiple peer educators in a classroom is having a diverse perspective on issues. Even though it is our job to help students there is only so much we as peer educators can do and when we are unable to help that is when we direct the student to our resources on campus.
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