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Goal Setting with Students
By Robin Satty, Ed.D.
Whether working one-on-one on SAT prep or an entire class on middle school science, we can help keep our students motivated and focused with a good, ambitious, achievable goal. Here are some considerations for setting goals with students, whether goals are grades, test scores, or confidence.
WHAT DO THEY WANT?
First and foremost, a student should be invested in their goal. Consider what a student wants, both now and in the future. Many students have...
Concept Understanding: Are My Tutors Employees or Contractors?
A quick tip on how to use "Wait Time" to encourage student participation
Silence is golden. In teaching, it is even more important - but not for the kids, for the instructor!
Nobody’s brain works instantly. For students, who are learning new skills and developing procedural knowledge (the “how” to do stuff, like solving a linear equation), their brains take some time to evaluate a question, decide how to approach it, and then solve the problem.
Unfortunately, teachers don’t usually leave students enough...
Is Wikipedia Reliable?
By. Robin Satty, Ed.D.
Although Wikipedia is one of the most visited sources of information on the internet, students are frequently told that it is unreliable and shouldn’t be used as a source. Should we trust it?
Ironically, if you ask Google “Is Wikipedia reliable?”, the first result is a Wikipedia page called “Wikipedia is not reliable”. However, the page is not exactly what it sounds like. It’s actually a notice to Wikipedia contributors that...
What is Formative Assessment?
By. Robin Satty, Ed.D.
Wouldn’t it be convenient if we could read our students’ minds and see exactly what they were thinking? Exactly what they know and what they don’t, exactly where the made the error, and exactly what was holding them back?
We haven’t (yet) developed the technology to do that, but formative assessment is the next best thing. Formative assessment “provides information needed to adjust teaching and learning while they are...
The Case for an Equal Access National Tutoring System
Working Paper Introduction
The substantial learning loss wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred calls for scaling tutoring programs to catch students up, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
What if we used this moment to make tutoring a permanent part of the public-school landscape?
After all, tutoring is among the most effective education interventions ever studied. The average effect of tutoring programs on academic achievement is larger than roughly 85 percent...
TPAPT Summer Conference - Call for Presentations
Call for Presentations!
What:
7th Annual Industry Conference for Tutoring Company Owner-Operators, IECs, and Edupreneurs
When:
July 22nd & 23rd
Where:
Live Online
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RFP Information:
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- Presentation length: 30-45 minutes
- Deadline to submit: June 21st, 2021
- Presenters will be...
More research on the impact of tutoring on student outcomes
Impact of Tutoring: Meta-Analysis
This meta-study uses random-sampling to assess the impact of tutoring across K-12 subjects and by varying tutoring-types. It is one of several that have come out recently. View
Our take: having a program to scale Academic Subject Tutoring looks pretty enticing. In fact, the idea of a "Tutoring Marshall Plan" has been floated at the federal level and, well, tutoring works.
Concept Understanding: Cross-Selling and Product Diversification
| Tutoring firms can benefit in a predictable and measurable way by cross-selling products to current clients. One of the nice things about cross-selling is that it implies an high level of engagement between tutor and client. Most folks reading this now have probably engaged in add-ons (or cross selling) just to provide excellent client service without actually understanding the inherent benefit to their business. As the Test... |
Who Offers SAT Certification & Training?
We do! TPAPT has a remote training & certification course for people interested in tutoring either the SAT, the ACT, both, or specific sections from either. The course takes about 25 hours to complete.
Here is the link: SAT/ACT Training Anytime. We have a couple of other tools built specifically for tutors to find students and score practice...
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