Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. We cannot let schools be those spaces.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

I really don’t think that they’re growing,” said Brown, who’s also president of the National Tutoring Association. “I Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. But tutoring can work equally well even when the school day isn’t lengthened. Some of the extra time was used for an hour of homework help with volunteer tutors but there wasn’t a structured daily tutoring program. What you do with the time matters.

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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

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Copur-Gencturk persisted, supported in part by a federal grant, to create a tutoring-style platform for teachers, as yet unnamed. Teaching is hard.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. Some students attend tutoring up to four days a week, at a cost of up to $1,000 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Before, out-of-school suspension risked academic setback for students, says Dr. Robinson, since it was sometimes logistically difficult to arrange tutors. Related: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring. Here’s what will stay when things go back to normal. This was a real awakening.”

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

Those benefits are attractive, but teachers often struggle to conceptualize the linear lesson plan in a more circular rotation where groups of students start in each station. I encourage teachers to reflect on specific questions when reviewing a lesson plan.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers don’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it. The reading program ITSS stands for Intelligent Tutoring using the Structure Strategy and is used by about 150,000 students, mostly in grades three through five.

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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. Fellows are also prepared to develop, acquire, translate and use scientific evidence to design and implement high-quality lesson plans that will benefit students of all abilities. “We Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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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. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Tutors sometimes coordinate with classroom teachers to review foundational concepts so that a struggling student can better follow along in class. It’s a heavy lift for a teacher to figure out the essential prerequisite skills for each lesson and which grade-level units are less essential and can be cut.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I ChatGPT and other generative AI go steps further, and can create personalized lesson plans and conduct human-like conversations with students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed. Instead, if students are in jeopardy of failing, there should be an early identification system to support them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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. In some ways, it’s nice to just have something that you can pull off the shelf and use when it comes to curriculum, lesson plans, and resources,” said Arnett.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Oh, and then you have to figure out how to fit in eating lunch somewhere in there.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

The thought of a classroom driven by an AI tutor, curriculum being curated by algorithms or administrative tasks being managed entirely by AI tools, while fascinating prospects, can incite anxiety and fear among educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Sophisticated programs can adjust to each student’s needs and pace, like a personal tutor. Yannier began with two lesson plans: one given to kids only on the computer; and one given to a different group of kids using her mixed-reality contraption. Teachers can get real-time feedback on what students are struggling with.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. So, Hampton taught herself how to teach phonics, and devoted much of her time to tutoring her students in reading. “As They were told to implement them immediately.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Physics majors from the University of Virginia and Yale University work as tutors, providing individual attention to students via an online platform. Infusing lessons with music. In others, a teacher serves more as a “facilitator” of the online content, according to Matt Dolan, Founder and CEO of the Global Teaching Project.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2018

Local AP-certified supervisory teachers also support in-class instructors with detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance. College students majoring in relevant disciplines conduct interactive tutoring sessions with each class by video-conference.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. The district already had an internal learning-management system that housed lesson plans, organized assignments and tracked student progress online, she said. The Richmond (Va.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

One teacher is trained as a math specialist and they tutor the other teachers to help them construct lesson plans. If a third-grade teacher were to take advantage of all the professional development offered, Fancher said she or he could have over 100 hours of help.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Get it here: [link] Or [link] My local Biggby Coffee gave all teachers a free drink today, so this Butter Bear Latte is going to power me through my afternoon assessment session and after school tutoring! I hope everyone is having a fantastic start to the school year!

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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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Becoming a History Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

However, I know from speaking to my tutees that many prospective teachers are actually more like my 21-year-old self than they are prepared to admit to an admissions tutor. I also know that many of them, almost despite themselves, end up like me – beguiled by teaching and keen to make a really first-rate go of it as a career.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Biden Administration has urged schools to use tutoring. Many schools have purchased an online version that gives students 24/7 access to tutors. Students never see their tutors or hear their voices. Low uptake The main problem is that on-demand tutoring relies on students to seek extra help. Very few do.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers. Some exceed $4,000.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. While he applies to graduate school, the affable 23-year-old holds a part-time job that barely existed before the pandemic: online tutor. A couple of times, Salvatore recalled, he tutored as many as seven students at once.

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