The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Research points to intensive daily tutoring as one of the most effective ways to help academically struggling children catch up. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring. The best results occur when tutoring takes place at school during the regular day.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. We cannot let schools be those spaces.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I I’ve had to teach in a lot of different places this year,” he says. Ishmael Brown Jr.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Teachers have to do countless tasks—including lesson planning, teaching, grading, mentoring, classroom management, as well as keeping up with technology and new pedagogical practices, monitoring progress, and other administrative work—all while keeping students’ social and emotional needs in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. Others were meant to lessen teacher workload by helping with lesson planning or project ideas; several were designed to assist English language learners.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Jake Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington AI can serve as a tutor, giving a student who is floundering with a problem immediate feedback. It can help a teacher plan math lessons, or write a variety of math problems geared toward different levels of instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. “It’s a hard challenge,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

We don’t have flying frogs and leaping lizards but we do try to teach kids how to understand what they read,” said Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar, a professor at Texas A&M University who developed the reading comprehension program ITSS that made the list of three. It’s systematic direct instruction, using evidence-based practices.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

I tell our students, it’s like tutoring,” she says. “If If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.” I tell our students, it’s like tutoring. If you need help in math, you go get a tutor. We’re kind of your tutors for mental health.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Only one piece of software that taught reading, Intelligent Tutoring for the Structure Strategy ( ITSS ), showed promise, suggesting that it is possible to create good educational software outside of math, but it’s a lot harder. Teachers didn’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

A student at work with her tutor. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. We must help teachers get the training they need to be able to teach all of their students, including students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Tutors sometimes coordinate with classroom teachers to review foundational concepts so that a struggling student can better follow along in class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. If you don’t have the basics down, and the teacher is teaching in ways that seem more confusing, you could be worse off.” ” said Polikoff. “Common Core is more conceptual with math.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”. I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The district eventually found one retiree to teach science, in January. When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring. and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said. I don’t have any purpose.’”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

For educators, who have carefully cultivated their teaching methods over the years, the suggestion of a radical shift of any kind, can trigger profound unease. The apprehension that generative AI could revolutionize the very core of teaching and learning is not unfounded.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. They were told to implement them immediately.

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Becoming a History Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Teaching therefore presented itself as the natural answer to post-university next steps but, as I started my Initial Teacher Education course, I did not intend education to become a life-long career. If not, what impact is that having upon the unintentional teacher for whom teaching is not a vocation?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. Nesra Yannier, the inventor of this teaching machine, confidently smiles. Toymail has invented a two-way communications device that can be used to transmit lessons. Because it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The Global Teaching Project, an initiative aimed at providing high-quality content to promising students, and the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access have launched a three-year pilot program to bring college-level AP courses to schools that lack certified teachers and course offerings. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. It’s a change in thinking. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. This is not true.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. In some cities, school buses now deliver daily paper packets of schoolwork, along with bagged breakfasts and lunches.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

The Consortium is working with the Global Teaching Project , which provides educational content and academic support, as well as faculty and students from Yale, the University Virginia, Stanford, and Mississippi universities to offer AP classes at schools that previously had few, if any, AP courses.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Wow, today is the first day of my fifth year of teaching! I teach at a virtual school so my students and I are all doing school from our own homes all day. Today the students are doing a lot of orientation activities, so I’m just leading home room sessions and will start my US History classes later this week.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. Finally, tutoring is available through four “skills coaches.”. Related: School choice on steroids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ever since the pandemic shut down schools almost three years ago, I’ve been writing about tutoring as the most promising way to help kids catch up academically. I often get questions about research on tutoring. How effective is tutoring? There are no magic bullets in education, but tutoring comes as close to one as you get.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The High School of Fashion Industries in New York City is one of thousands of schools around the country that are offering high-dosage tutoring to students. students are receiving this kind of intensive, daily tutoring, which can take place in person or virtually. So called “high-dosage tutoring” is more like the latter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Schools report that students are receiving more tutoring sessions when they’re scheduled during the school day without competing instructional activities at the same time. Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

“Educators were kept engaged through WhatsApp groups and sent videos of themselves teaching post-training,” says Rewane. What’s Next Edtech firms relying on teachers and tutors to support their business models often take a highly personalized approach to training. hours to 10 minutes.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

And even the bill’s leaders say they can imagine positive uses for AI in teaching, and the bill wouldn’t stop colleges from using generative AI to help with tasks like grading or creating educational materials. But champions of the bill also say they have reason to worry about the possibility of AI replacing professors in the future.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Though they didnt rise to the threshold of my 10 most read stories, I would also recommend these three stories about troubles with tutoring , something called subitizing and the puzzle of chronic absenteeism.) What struck a chord with readers in 2024 were stories about teacher pay, reading instruction and artificial intelligence.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Rand is new to teaching at Holmes Central, but she spent three years here as a student. Rand, like nearly one in five members of the district’s teaching staff, has a temporary license. It’s still teaching kids there’s a black school and there’s a white school.”. Rand took a job teaching fifth grade at Goodman-Pickens Elementary.

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