2024-05-08
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College Student-Tutors Revolutionize K-12 Education
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College Student-Tutors Revolutionize K-12 Education
Nikita Dutt, a second-year student at the University of California, Davis, has been working as a tutor through the California Volunteers College Corps, a state-funded partnership program that places college students into paid internships. Dutt earns $700 per month, provided she tutors elementary students for at least 20 hours per two weeks. She works on math with students in Los Angeles and San Francisco, beamed in through a host program that uses virtual-first tutoring.
Dutt is one of the college students being conscripted as high-dose tutors for struggling schools. With federal funds dwindling, schools have to find other sources to keep these programs going. Leaders of some organizations say that college students and community members help swell the number of tutors available to K-12 classrooms and may also allow schools to more sustainably fund them.
A new high-dose tutoring training program aims to boost the quality of tutors, something researchers have flagged as a challenge for schools. A coalition behind a new tutor training program thinks it can help. Step Up Tutoring has had about 170 tutors go through the program to pick up instructional skills.
College students are a promising source of tutors, as they come with relationship-building skills and tend to have an easier time connecting with younger students who often want to know what it’s like to be in college. Schools might be eager to embrace the model of harnessing the power of college student-tutors, as Step Up is an approved federal work-study provider on 16 college campuses and works with California’s College Corps program.
Dutt is one of the college students being conscripted as high-dose tutors for struggling schools. With federal funds dwindling, schools have to find other sources to keep these programs going. Leaders of some organizations say that college students and community members help swell the number of tutors available to K-12 classrooms and may also allow schools to more sustainably fund them.
A new high-dose tutoring training program aims to boost the quality of tutors, something researchers have flagged as a challenge for schools. A coalition behind a new tutor training program thinks it can help. Step Up Tutoring has had about 170 tutors go through the program to pick up instructional skills.
College students are a promising source of tutors, as they come with relationship-building skills and tend to have an easier time connecting with younger students who often want to know what it’s like to be in college. Schools might be eager to embrace the model of harnessing the power of college student-tutors, as Step Up is an approved federal work-study provider on 16 college campuses and works with California’s College Corps program.
