Teaching · For Tutors

Homework Support Session Planner

Plan homework time so the student plans, works and checks, the minutes fit the session, and nothing due tomorrow gets left out.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Tutoring business kit, $69 for 97 items.

Plans

Each plan lists what is due, the order of work and the timeline. Load the worked example to see a 60-minute evening with three assignments.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A session plan with the assignments and due dates, the order of work and the supports used; a timeline that adds up against the session length and shows how much of it the student leads; six checks marked ready, not yet or not needed; and a run sheet with clock times and the due list to print.
Who it is for
Tutors, after-school staff and family members who sit with a student through homework, grades 3 to 12.
Format
Browser tool with a saved record per session plan. Prints a run sheet with clock times, the full session plan, every session plan in a table or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. List what is due, with estimates.
  2. Choose the order of work.
  3. Lay out the segments.
  4. Mark the checks.
  5. Print the run sheet for the table.

Start a plan

Homework help that leaves the work with the student

Who holds the pencil, minute by minuteStart: the student plansOpens the planner andreads out what is duePuts the tasks in orderwith a reasonEstimates minutes foreachMiddle: the student worksTutor shows one example,then steps backStudent does the restaloneTutor asks questionsinstead of fixingEnd: the student checksChecks answers or therubricWrites what is left andwhenPacks the finished workto hand inWho holds the pencil, minute by minuteStart: the student plansOpens the planner and reads out what is duePuts the tasks in order with a reasonEstimates minutes for eachMiddle: the student worksTutor shows one example, then steps backStudent does the rest aloneTutor asks questions instead of fixingEnd: the student checksChecks answers or the rubricWrites what is left and whenPacks the finished work to hand in
A homework session goes well when the student does the thinking and the tutor does the asking. The planner measures exactly that.

Why the student leads

Homework practice helps older students most when they do the retrieving and the deciding themselves. A tutor who explains every step produces finished worksheets and a student who cannot repeat them at home. The tool counts the minutes the student plans or works and flags any plan under 70 percent.

Estimating the evening

Students routinely underestimate how long tasks take. Asking for an estimate per assignment, then comparing it with the session, turns that into a skill: the tool shows when the work will not fit and what has to wait.

Sources

  1. Cooper, H. (2007). The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents (3rd ed.). Corwin.
  2. Zimmerman, B. J. (2002). Becoming a self-regulated learner: an overview. Theory Into Practice, 41(2), 64-70.
  3. Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., and Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14(1), 4-58.
  4. Rosenshine, B. (2012). Principles of instruction: research-based strategies that all teachers should know. American Educator, 36(1), 12-19.

The worked examples are made up. The 70 percent and 20-minute flags are planning rules of thumb, not research thresholds. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.