ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Topics around how AI fits into education continued to draw listeners this year, including our interview with Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy, about his groups new AI chatbot tutor. Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son Should AI chatbots be used as tutors?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. But it was based on very few studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

You still need advisers, you still need a writing center, a tutoring center, and now you have to provide those services for students who are at a distance, said Dylan Barth, vice president of innovation and programs at the Online Learning Consortium, which represents online education providers. These online courses could be cheaper.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I found it helpful to identify the learning objectives for a lesson and write out a traditional linear agenda since that was familiar. Teachers on a traditional school schedule with 45-60 minute classes can run a station rotation over multiple days, depending on the number of stations and the time needed in each. Peer Tutor Role.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

At least a teacher has the opportunity to vet what AI spits out before giving or teaching it to students. The big question, of course, is whether these ChatGPT’s solutions help students learn math better than traditional teaching. It’s riskier when you’re asking students to learn directly from AI.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”

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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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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

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. China has since cracked down on the online tutoring industry there and now prohibits any classes that pair Chinese children with foreign teachers.) I learned quickly what the recruiter meant.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures. Excerpt 05.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Logue had the same teachers teach sections of both courses – remedial algebra and college stats – so that no one could argue instructional quality was different.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession. And current shortages are finally beginning to spur an embrace of broader conceptions of teaching.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. The series, called “ America’s Future Teachers ,” comes at a time when the teaching profession is in turmoil. Several were turning to teaching as a second career.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Time spent finding materials is time not spent giving students feedback, tailoring existing lessons for students or giving students one-to-one tutoring help. In the midst of a national debate on how best to teach math , this survey is an important reminder of yet another reason why many students aren’t getting the instruction that they need.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

They want to teach. They want to teach.” Scale Tutoring for the 1:1 Experience Scaled tutoring strategies can save teachers from needing to be in 30 places at once delivering 30 unique and personalized lessons. But we need to remember that teachers don’t want to be data analysts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. A much smaller amount went to academic recovery, such as tutoring or summer school. How am I going to factor?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Doing so involves leveraging research rooted in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) — a systematic inquiry into student learning to improve teaching practices — and analyzing insights that have been drawn from academic and institutional data. To advance the teaching and learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At least seven states, from Arkansas to Wisconsin, now require teachers to be trained in the Orton-Gillingham teaching approach and use it to help students with dyslexia read and write better. They were administered to children as either one-to-one tutoring sessions or in small groups. It also emphasizes multisensory instruction.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? Who’s going to teach them?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

You can always talk to your tutors or your teachers. But Match is also trying some ideas that stand out from the now-familiar charter model, including a personalized, “high-dosage” tutoring model that it developed, which is geared to identifying the individual weaknesses of each student, as well as their strengths. Photo: Liz Willen.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

We talked to: Michelle Cantu-Wilson, director of teaching and learning initiatives and special projects at San Jacinto College. Tyler Roeger, director of the center for the enhancement of teaching and learning at Elgin Community College. Wendy Schatzberg, director for the center of teaching and learning at Utah Tech University.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Administrators are looking for ways to squeeze in more time for math help during the school day and are considering extending traditional school hours for tutoring. On top of making the most of the class time, Howard County plans to offer in-person tutoring programs before or after school — or even on Saturday mornings or evenings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. I live in rural Idaho, and if I’d gone to a traditional middle school, I would have needed to travel more than 90 minutes round-trip from my home in Priest Lake to attend.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

But a 2017 California law that sought to nearly eliminate remedial classes allowed Medina to skip intermediate algebra; he enrolled in a higher-level statistics course that offered intense tutoring, and he had no trouble passing. “I They’re continuing to steer students toward these classes while saying, ‘No, no, it’s their choice.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. Part of the extra cost is to cover the tutoring, coaching and counseling that are needed to help low-income high school students catch up and accelerate.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. Some teachers also lack the confidence and experience as writers to adequately teach their students elements of the craft.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The teachers keep a close eye on this data and use it to develop small-group activities that make the material come to life — such as working at the virtual reality stations — or to identify the students who failed to master the lessons on their own and pull them out for extra tutoring. Right now, most do not. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other cases, where academic struggles or bullying was to blame, tutoring and counseling helped re-engage students and keep them in class. is an alternative school that welcomes students who didn’t find the behavioral or academic support they needed in traditional schools. El Dorado High School in Chandler, Ariz.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. I laughed out loud when one shared, “Parents are co-teaching at home!”. It’s my job to help writers craft stories with engaging narratives and detailed descriptions of characters. Some of these stories even win awards. But it’s not a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Dorfman also noted that his more advanced students can work ahead more effectively.

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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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