What’s known about tutoring

A team of researchers spent a decade videotaping expert tutors teaching basic math to kids, one on one. They found some tutors are better than others—much better, as measured by both math tests and student motivation. And by studying the video, they learned why.

These slides accompanied a talk I gave at Nashville Code Co-op Talk Day, March 30, 2013. http://www.nashvillecode.org/events/2013-march/

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2. 87 x 43 ---- (dramatic reenactment)
3. 87 x 43 ---- 32 (dramatic reenactment)
4. 87 x 43 ---- 32 Your answer is wrong. (dramatic reenactment)
5. 87 x 43 ---- 32 Your answer is wrong. Possible causes of error: (dramatic reenactment)
6. 87 x 43 ---- 32 Your answer is wrong. Possible causes of error: 1. You multiplied the number in the multiplicand by the number directly beneath it in the multiplier, and you wrote down the carried number, ignoring the units number. (dramatic reenactment)
7. What’s known about tutoring Jason Orendorff @jorendorff Nashville Code Co-op Talk Day, 30 March 2013
8. Mark Lepper Stanford University Maria Woolverton Georgetown University Medical Center
10. expert tutors are out there
11. expert tutors are out there …and they have a plan
12. Math knowledge
13. Questions, not directions
14. Hints, not answers
15. Productive vs. non-productive errors
17. Knowledge
18. Knowledge Questions
19. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers
20. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers Productive errors
21. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers Productive errors
22. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers Productive errors the Socratic method
23. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers Productive errors the Socratic method Computers can’t do this yet :(
25. Rapport
26. Rapport Warmth
27. Rapport Warmth Confidence
28. Rapport Warmth Confidence Challenge
29. Rapport Warmth Confidence Challenge Indirect feedback
30. Motivation
31. Knowledge Questions Hints, not answers Productive errors
35. ~$ _