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One of the things we talk about with these university professors who are trying to improve
their teaching skills, is how important it is to remember what it was like to be a student.
Its easy to get removed from that once you have a degree, once you've been teaching for
quite a while, and an awareness of what it was like to be a student not understanding
that course material is essential. Peers who are undergraduates are much closer
to that point in their life, they remember the previous semester; how they did not understand
that material. The students on the receiving end are sometimes
intimidated to go to their professors so these peer educators are on their level, they've
just had the course and we refer to our programs in peer education as Aggies helping Aggies.
The skills that we teach them are those that are transferable from one course to the next.
We're helping them how to learn to be good students for the rest of their lives.