👩‍🏫 Peer teaching 👀 For observing ⚠️ Giving advice

monitorial

9.2

Older students teach younger ones in class

adjective
/ˌmɒnɪˈtɔːriəl/

Archaic

: monitorial

Using a monitorial method, teachers encourage skilled students to assist those who are struggling with their studies.
monitorial system

Examples

In 1837, Reiff instituted a monitorial system whereby advanced pupils taught the younger and less proficient students.

Academic text (2015)
Reiff organized a band and choir that performed frequently throughout the city and surrounding states and established a monitorial system whereby advanced students taught beginning musicians.

Academic text (2015)
Bells and Lancaster's school form was characterized by "mutual instruction," "peer tutoring," and a "monitorial system," in which the teacher worked in particular as an observer relative to the students (Bugge 1965, 1968).

Academic text (2018)
In the monitorial system, older students help teach younger classmates, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
The school adopted a monitorial approach, allowing advanced students to tutor their peers in difficult subjects.

Synonyms

Lancasterian

vsmonitorial

Archaic

9.9

Of a school method where older students teach younger ones

is the general term for systems where advanced students teach younger ones

How Student-Led

unschool

Jargon

1 8.5

monitorial

Archaic

9.2

co-teaching

Specialized

3.6

assisted

1 3.2

Surface Forms

monitorial positive

Morphology

monitorial = monitor (semi-transparent) = monitor + ial

Form is clearly 'monitor' + '-ial', but the sense 'relating to a specific pedagogical system' is a specialised historical meaning that learners may not derive from the base word.

Etymology

Monitorial comes from the word monitor, which comes from Latin monere meaning 'to warn' or 'advise'. In schools a monitor was an older student who helped teach younger ones, so monitorial means 'relating to a system where students help teach'.