A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

The term most often refers to school classrooms but may include any designated place of learning such as science laboratories, distance learning contexts, libraries, tutoring centers, teachers’ lounges, gymnasiums and non-formal learning spaces.

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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., Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. A much smaller amount went to academic recovery, such as tutoring or summer school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 14, 2024

Intelligent Tutoring Systems : By simulating one-on-one tutoring experiences, AI tutors can provide instant feedback, clarify student doubts, and offer explanations tailored to individual learning styles, thereby enhancing understanding and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Which all begs the question: Should we expect the traditional education system to add responsibilities when we already know that it has not been able to keep up over the past few years? Indiana is offering families grants of up $1,000 to support after-school tutoring. K-12 educators have one of the highest rates of burnout in the U.S.

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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

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 originally sought to conduct a simpler, cleaner study of only algebra, comparing the remedial prerequisite to the college course plus tutoring support.

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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. Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate. One problem is that it’s time consuming.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

School districts try to accommodate these special needs by working providing online courses, in-home tutors, special busing, video conferencing and more. VGo gets the student back to the traditional schooling environment by providing a physical device that replicates the student while away from school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Each story — each person — is unique.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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.

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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. Those extra periods could also include tutoring. (A

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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 ? Most traditional schools are locked into static time blocks, whether they have a traditional 7- or 8-period daily schedule or an alternating-day block schedule with longer class times.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2023

In lieu of traditional remedial classes, which some research finds to be ineffective, more schools are offering “corequisite” classes that help students shore up on the basics while also taking higher courses like calculus. Penn State tackled the problem by expanding peer tutoring. At Temple, there’s been no rebound.

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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

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. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. What you do with the time matters.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Experiments should examine how “AI tutors” provide personalized feedback and explore the impact on learning and attitude-related outcomes for students, and how these outcomes compare to those achieved with more traditional resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. The adaptability, flexibility and creativity of the teacher will play a huge role in designing and implementing a lesson in the metaverse to have learning outcomes that surpass those of the traditional classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

Over time, you might wish to experiment, perhaps replacing the white sugar with brown for a deeper flavor, substituting almond flour for a friend who cannot eat gluten, or opting for a cream cheese frosting instead of the traditional buttercream for a friend who prefers it. This flexibility and freedom to tweak the recipe keep?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Esports programs are growing at colleges across the country for their ability to attract and engage students—just like traditional sports. When staff tried to create an official peer tutoring program, students said there was no need. How can colleges create esports programs where everyone feels like they can join?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many dyslexia advocates remain loyal to Orton-Gillingham, McHale-Small said, because so many parents have kids whom they believe were helped by Orton-Gillingham tutors. They were administered to children as either one-to-one tutoring sessions or in small groups. “You can’t deny the findings of multiple studies.” .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

In New York City, only 54 percent of students graduated from high school within six years at the city’s 50 transfer schools, which is the name the city uses because students who fall behind “transfer” from traditional high schools, where 83 percent of students managed to graduate within six years. Most finish far sooner.) They let you eat.”.

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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 With traditional remediation, you’re eliminating potential students before they get there.”.

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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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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. They are unclear on the distinction between academic writing and the personal narrative style required for college essays.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition. Blending intelligent tutoring and personalized feedback, the Primer covers a wide variety of relevant academic subjects, along with social-emotional and critical-thinking skills.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. The data platform can also be used to support peer tutoring. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Traditional teaching uses class time to introduce students to concepts, which they then engage with on their own through homework. Similar systems could work for embedded tutoring, health and wellness and advising, says Roeger of Elgin Community College.

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