Smith, Amber Zoe2017-11-282017-11-282017-04-28http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80506In the Virginia Tech Honors College, honors peer educators are students who apply to be the sole instructors for discussion-based classes, such as first-year seminars and reading seminars, for academic credit (Smith, 2016). This research suggests that discussion-based teaching is an effective way of meeting honors students’ needs, and it describes discussion-based teaching techniques that are accessible and beneficial to honors peer educators.en-USCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesdiscussion-based teachingpeer educationhonorsArticlehttps://www.honorscouncil.eu/jehc/JEHC20170108Smith.pdf11