The Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri (PSRS/PEERS) provide a significant and stable source of retirement, disability and survivor benefits to Missouri's public school teachers, school employees and their families.
Explanation A peer is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other high school students are your peers. Peer comes from the Latin par which means equal. When you are on par with someone, you are their peer. If kids your age are pressuring you to do something you don't want to do, that's peer pressure.
The UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) offers manualized, evidence-based social skills programming for youth and adults who are struggling socially.
Do you think it's true that teenage girls are less self-confident than their male peers? He wasn't a great scholar, but as a teacher he had few peers (= not as many people had the same ability as him).
PEERS® groups are focused on helping you build your own social life in the real world. In one group, teens and young adults learn and practice social skills together; in a separate group, parents & caregivers learn how to support them effectively.
A person who is a member of the same group, class, etc. as another. A professor's academic peers.
He was respected and admired by his peers. She peered into the dark closet looking for her missing shoe. He peered down the well. An animal peered out from the woods next to their camp. He peered over the fence.
[usually plural] a person who is the same age or who has the same social status as you. She enjoys the respect of her peers. A peer review system is being introduced to help teachers who are experiencing difficulty. Children are worried about failing in front of their peers.
The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) was originally developed at UCLA by Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson, Founder and Director of the UCLA PEERS Clinic, and Dr. Fred Frankel.
PEERS is a social skills training intervention to support individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other social disorders who have difficulty with peer interactions and relationships.