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Purpose

Use these ten multiple-choice questions to design your tutoring program’s model dimensions. Model Dimensions are the specific design choices a new tutoring program makes at the outset. Each choice you make should have a clear rationale supported by your Landscape Analysis. Below we describe each of the Model Dimensions and outline a set of considerations for each dimension. 

1. How are you targeting your tutoring, and what is your articulation for why tutoring is needed?

What is a Landscape Analysis?

A Landscape Analysis outlines the strengths, resources, and needs of a particular community. It provides a framework for designing a service and ensuring that it is embedded directly in the needs of the community.

What is a Logic Model?

A Logic Model is a road map for thinking through how to create a desired change or outcome. Creating such a model requires a top-level articulation of the inputs and actions required for a program to produce results, and an adherence to a consistent internal logic regarding how the design of a program relates to its goals. For any tutoring program, a Logic Model should explain how the model itself, the supports, and the stakeholders will interact to produce the results that you aim to achieve for students.

Critical Questions

• What are the critical qualities for tutors in this program?
• How will the program recruit and select tutors to ensure a diverse cohort?
• How will the program recruit and select tutors to ensure they have the necessary skills?
• What expectations and processes will be set for tutors to ensure effectiveness and safety?
• How will the program train and support tutors?
• How will the training incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion?

Sub Elements

Critical Questions

• How will the program engage stakeholders to ensure tutoring aligns with classroom curricula?
• How will tutors leverage stakeholders to build their understanding of student needs to tailor tutoring? 
• How will tutors build trust with stakeholders? 

Sub Elements

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Critical Questions

• What academic content will tutoring sessions focus on? 
• How should tutoring sessions be structured and facilitated to affirm students’ academic and personal identities, build strong relationships, and ensure students master the content?

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Critical Question

• What data will the program collect to measure impact?
• How will these data reflect a holistic understanding of students’ experiences?
• What processes will be in place to review and act upon collected data?
• How will these review processes promote equity and reduce bias?

Sub Elements

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Program Design Decisions: Model Dimensions and Related Considerations

As you design a tutoring program, you will have numerous decisions to make that influence and impact one another. On the left column of the table below are Model Dimensions of tutoring programs; on the right are corresponding Considerations that allow you to contemplate how interactions among model design decisions may impact your tutoring program.