{"id":4388,"date":"2022-05-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/uncategorized\/big-and-small-groups-during-and-after-class-tutoring-all-over-map\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:20:15","slug":"big-and-small-groups-during-and-after-class-tutoring-all-over-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/talent-education\/big-and-small-groups-during-and-after-class-tutoring-all-over-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Big and small groups, during and after class: tutoring is all over the map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Math games, time with friends, and her mother. That\u2019s how ShaeLynn Troutman, a 7th grader at East Arbor Charter Academy outside Ypsilanti, describes the reasons she stays after school twice a week for tutoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ShaeLynn\u2019s grades fell during the pandemic as she \u2014 like many students across Michigan<\/a> \u2014 struggled to engage with virtual lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What makes tutoring effective?<\/h2>\n

There are several factors that academic researchers say make tutoring most effective. When tutors are well-trained, teach content that\u2019s connected to what students learn during their regular school day and form a consistent relationship with students, tutoring tends to be more effective, according to a report <\/a>on the feasibility of sharply expanding tutoring services in American public schools.<\/p>\n

Tutoring should also occur at least three times a week and in groups of no more than one tutor per four students, the report says.  When the groups get larger than that, the teaching becomes small-group instruction, which is less personalized. <\/p>\n

Tutoring conducted during the school day, as opposed to after school or during the summer, tends to lead to more learning gains. Generally, more research has been done on in-person tutoring rather than remote tutoring, but there is some \u201cemerging evidence\u201d that distance tutoring can be effective. Students can benefit academically when tutoring is targeted toward low performing students, but there can be negative stigma attached to this.<\/p>\n

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So her mother encouraged her to take advantage of the optional tutoring, paid for through federal COVID relief funds for education. She has had more fun than she expected, and now she says she\u2019s well on her way to recovering that lost learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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