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Education / Pedagogy / Report | | Spanish term or phrase: alumno monitor | | Pendiente compra de materiales para integrar a 350 niños y niñas en centros escolares. Y contratar consultor para capacitar 30 alumnos monitores. |
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| | peer tutor | Explanation:
A prefect (in the UK; the US equivalent is "hall monitor": see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_monitor ) is responsible for discipline, normally outside the classroom. However, the term "alumno monitor" seems to denote a pupil who helps with actual teaching in the classroom. The fact that these alumnos monitores are to be trained by a consultant implies to me that they are something more than prefects/hall monitors (as I recall, being a prefect didn't require any great skill; they just terrorised younger pupils as they had previously been terrorised themselves). Here is a document that explains the sense of "alumno monitor" as I think it is being used here:
"Uno de los objetivos es promover la formación de alumnos-monitores para
apoyar el desarrollo de las actividades del proyecto en el laboratorio de informática. [...]
El alumno-monitor
Parcería con el POIE: colaborar desde la elaboración de la planificación hasta la evaluación de los resultados. No es alumno ni maestro; él contribuye de forma decisiva con sus conocimientos de tecnología para establecer el nexo entre los alumnos de la escuela y el proyecto.
Propiciar el protagonismo juvenil, involucrando al alumno-monitor como
corresponsable, es también promover una postura ética en este
alumno frente a los compromisos del proyecto."
And so on.
http://www.educared.org/global/congresoiv/docs/experiencias/...
The standard term for this in English is "peer tutor":
"A peer tutor is anyone who is of a similar status as the person being tutored. In an undergraduate institution this would usually be other undergraduates, as distinct from the graduate students who may be teaching the writing classes; in an K-12 school this is usually a student from the same grade or higher."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_tutor
There are variants, such as "peer teaching assistant", but "peer tutor" is the standard generic expression. "Pupil assistant" tends to mean an adult assistant who helps pupils.
The phenomenon and the term are found both in the US and the UK, and although they are more common at university level they are also found in primary schools, as here ("niños y niñas"):
University of Stirling (Scotland): "Peer learning and paired maths: Peer Tutor Status and Outcomes in Primary Mathematics Project.
The aims and objectives of this study are:
1. To develop successful pedagogical approaches in peer tutoring in mathematics for use with 10-12 year-old children.
2. To ascertain whether status of tutor influences tutoring discourse, cognitive and affective outcomes (self-esteem, social relationships and self-concept of pupils) when using reciprocal role tutoring techniques in primary school settings."
http://www.ioe.stir.ac.uk/research/projects/PeerLearning/Pee...
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The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +4