Peer Tutoring Exploring New Path Ways Through Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Secondary School Students

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Thinking critically is the ability to analyze a concept objectively, considering the facts and differing perspectives to reach a sound, logical conclusion. The constructivist teaching techniques, peer tutoring, scaffolding, cognitive apprenticeship, co-operative learning etc allows people to take change of their own learning knowledge about peer tutoring concerns a person's knowledge about personal cognitive resources and the compatibility between himself or herself as a learner and learning situation. Peer tutoring strategies facilitative learning how to learn. The investigator finds out the effectiveness of peer tutoring strategy for the development of thinking skill such as critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving among students at secondary level. A teacher can read by arranging for abler pupils to help less able one within a single class. The aim of the study was to find out whether the peer tutoring strategy is more effective than the prevailing method in teaching mathematics at the secondary level. With the support of their tutor and fellow students, learners must become skilled at assessing each source of information to determine its merit before using it as a reference. By helping students to cultivate critical thinking, we are sowing the seeds of a generation with a better-thinking capability that can help society