Classwide Peer Tutoring is a powerful instructional procedure that actively engages all students in a classroom and that promotes mastery, accuracy, and fluency in content learning for students with and without disabilities. The purpose of this article is to discuss Classwide Peer Tutoring as an effective instructional procedure. The article is organized into two major areas: (a) a description of the procedure and (b) efficacy research supporting the practice of the procedure.
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