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Tutor / Academic Coach
Provides personalized one-on-one or small-group instruction to help students master subjects.
Did you know?
Alexander the Great was privately tutored by Aristotle
How subjects help
- Psychology: Build a nervous student's confidence so they keep trying hard problems.
- Communication: Find out exactly where a student gets stuck and explain it in a new way.
A famous name
Sal Khan: Began tutoring his cousin in maths online in 2004, which grew into Khan Academy.
Try it yourself: Try a brain dump
- Pick a topic you learned at least a few days ago. Put your book and notes away.
- For five minutes, write or draw everything you can remember about it. It will feel hard, and that is the point.
- Now open your notes and use the coloured pen to add anything you missed or got wrong.
- Write three questions a friend could use to test themselves on the tricky bits, then try your own questions again tomorrow.
Tutors and lecturers build in regular recall practice with feedback, because pulling knowledge out of memory makes it stick better than rereading.
Adapted from The Learning Scientists: Learn how to study using… retrieval practice.
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Known for it in
USA, UK, Japan, South Korea, Singapore