Dallas News has an article about this: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20120414-studies-find-students-rarely-benefit-from-tutor-program.ece and it’s something I’ve been wondering about myself.
First, I want to know how the students are being tutoring – my theory is that the students don’t need another session of a teacher talking to them. It didn’t work the first time. However, I see a lot of these going on at my school.
My theory is that the students need extra time, supervised by someone who can actually tell when the student solved the problem the wrong way and guide them to solve the problem the wrong way.
In my experience as a math teacher, your not as abled students don’t practice enough. They also don’t have access to someone who knows how to work the problems.
I will admit to tutoring the above way at AP Sessions but those are different students with a different goal. If I was running the program, I would tutor my way – give the kids extra time to work problems, supervise them so I know they are on task, check their answers and answer questions.
Funny that’s the way I teach and it works pretty well.
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