Resources to help school leaders, teachers and tutors.
Summary Hand Outs
School leaders: Getting started with small group tutoring
5 essential steps to get your tutoring set up and implemented effectively at your school
School Leaders: Engaging with students and their parents/carers
Ensure buy-in and support from your students and their parents/carers by asking these questions
School leaders: Ways to measure progress
Understanding impact needs to be quick and simple. Identify your data collections at the start of your tutoring initiative - and ensure your efforts can be informed by their impact.
School leaders: Evaluate your impact
Simple questions for your school leadership team, for your teacher/tutor teams, and your students, to step through impact data and what it means - making sure your tutoring teaching and learning is effective.
Tutors & Teachers: Working together
Key things for teachers and tutors to discuss at the start, throughout and at the end of tutoring: planning, feedback and understanding impact.
Research summary
We’ve done the hard work for you! Read our short summary of the research on the best way to implement small group in-school tutoring
User Guides
School Leader: Tutoring Set Up
This School Leader’s Guide aims to support school leaders to establish an effective tutoring program by providing guidance on identifying:
tutoring program goals
student selection criteria
implementation risks and
success criteria.
Tutor & Teacher Guide: Working together
This Guide is for tutors and teachers to help plan for tutoring as a part of classroom practice. It steps through:
identifying student learner profiles
setting goals for each group of students
understanding student engagement
facilitating feedback each week between the tutor and the teacher
School Leaders: Evaluation Guide
What gets measured gets done! The School Leader’s evaluation guide will step you through collecting and organising your data, interpreting trends, inferring meaning and causes, and planning tweaks to your tutoring initiative so as to improve outcomes for your students, tutors and teachers.
Resources for evidence collection: Forms, Templates and Perception Survey items to gauge the effectiveness of tutoring
This School Leaders guide provides instruments and resources to help to understand progress through to the end-of-tutoring impact assessment. Included items are:
perception survey items for tutors, teachers and students, both the beginning (baseline) and end (growth assessment) of the tutoring initiative
student learning profile template
goal setting template for each tutoring group
weekly template to facilitate tutor/teacher feedback
emoticon pulse check-ins for students to gauge their satisfaction and engagement each session
Worksheets
Tutors & Teachers: Goal Setting
a template to help set goals for each tutor group
Student Learner Profile
a template to identify student learning motivations, interests and needs
Tutors & Teachers: Weekly Feedback
a template to structure conversations on student learning and teaching needs
Student exit ticket (emoticon answer options)
a short printable emoticon-based survey to gauge engagement
Student exit ticket (free text responses)
a short printable survey, with some free text responses, to gauge engagement