What is YTeach? YTeach is the Uber of K-12 Peer Assisted Learning. Through our mobile app, students can schedule free lessons with their peers with the click of abutton. As a result, they can engage and foster relationships with their peer mentors in additionto developing a growth mindset for long-term learning. YTeach is also a […]
YTeach was created by a student who knew that just like him, students constantly had questions, and there likely was someone within his school who could help him understand how to find the answers. He understood that students seeking help often face not knowing who to ask or have trouble trying to find the time […]
For the past three years I’ve been helping high schools build efficient, sustainable peer tutoring programs. When I was a high school student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia, physics was my favorite subject. I discovered most of my passion for physics through tutoring other students in it, since […]
Sharing Academy was born as the first peer tutoring marketplace for university students, where any student that needed help to learn some subjects could find top-notch colleagues from their same university and area of study willing to help them. In our goal to democratize education, we started an expansion to all kinds of tutoring keeping […]
As the school year starts, check out Splor! Splor allows students to search for skills / concepts and find peers who’ve mastered them. Typically, I’d start by touting the benefits of peer tutoring and peer teaching, but the Peer Tutoring Resource Center already has. So, instead, I’ll share three benefits of using technology to facilitate peer teaching: 1. Splor […]
It is safe to say that social networks have become an integral part of the fabric that makes up our lives, for better or worse, and that there is no area which they haven’t influenced, and that includes education. At this moment, millions around the globe are online either looking for, or posting new information. […]
