During this inconvenient but necessary period of school closures to help curb the spread of the Coronavirus, educators like yourself are facing some unprecedented challenges. Students and their families are looking to you to offer directions for transitioning into a home learning environment, while you are also trying to navigate the uncharted waters of long-distance […]
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 […]
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 […]
