Tool Appendix
Tutors
Recruitment & Selection
Program Quality
Measuring Tutoring Effectiveness Through Data
In this National Student Support Accelerator webinar, we will cover the ways in which tutoring programs can utilize data in order measure their program’s effectiveness in terms of both student learning and tutor teaching quality.
Personalizing Tutoring Sessions
In this National Student Support Accelerator webinar, we will be discussing a crucial component of any successful tutoring program: how to best personalize your program’s tutoring sessions to students' individual needs and learning styles.
Throughout this video, we will walk through the importance of personalizing tutoring, traits to look or train for in your tutors, what data to utilize in order to measure student and tutor progress, and what potential learning barriers tutors may identify in students along the way.
5 qualities of effective in-school tutoring programs
Done well, high-impact tutoring can help individual students accelerate their learning and increase their engagement with school, said Susanna Loeb, director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and a panelist. But designed poorly, tutoring can be ineffective, she said.
As momentum grows to build high-quality tutoring opportunities into the school day, and as more federal stimulus funding for student learning becomes available, districts should consider tutoring initiatives, Loeb said. “This may be the best opportunity we'll have to get this proven intervention built into schools for the long run, to provide all students in need with the high-impact tutoring to supplement their classroom work,” she said.
Learning Loss and Recovery - Report from the Senate Presidents' Forum
High-Impact tutoring — i.e., tutoring delivered three or more times a week by consistent, trained tutors using quality materials and data to inform instruction — is one of the most effective academic interventions, providing an average of more than four months of additional learning in elementary literacy and almost 10 months in high school math, according to research from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University (learn more here). The National Student Support Accelerator offers open-source Accelerator tools and resources to help ensure more equitable access to quality tutoring. These research-backed tools and supports are easy to use and downloadable, and are designed to make structuring, implementing and scaling high-quality, high-impact tutoring programs as straightforward as possible.
Tutor Training - Part 2: Effective Facilitation and Relationship Building
This video is the second of a two-part series that will discuss the expectations, methods, and relationships that come with training your tutors. This 2-part series includes: Tutor Training, Part 1: Expectations, Methods and Relationship Building, and Tutor Training, Part 2: Effective Facilitation and Relationship Building.
Tutor Training - Part 1: Tutor Types & Training
This video is the first of a two-part series that will discuss the expectations, methods, and relationships that come with training your tutors. This 2-part series includes: Tutor Training, Part 1: Expectations, Methods and Relationship Building, and Tutor Training, Part 2: Effective Facilitation and Relationship Building.
Webinars
The National Student Support Accelerator is excited to share this series of webinars, designed to assist practitioners start or improve high-impact tutoring programs. These short, instructional videos supplement the Tool Kit and simplify these processes. Each webinar also includes the relevant transcript, slide deck, and links to slide-specific tools. Additional webinars will be released soon, covering more key program design, implementation, training, and instructional topics.