Teaching · For Tutors

Walk in with the hour already planned.

Write the goal, tap in the minutes for each part of the session and tick off the prep. The checklist builds a run of show and tells you if practice is getting squeezed.

Plan a sessionWhat you get
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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Tutoring business kit, $69 for 64 items.

The session plan

One plan per student and session. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A minute-by-minute run of show, the share of time the student practices, prep still open and the practice to leave behind.
Who it is for
Independent tutors, tutoring center staff and teachers who tutor.
Format
Browser checklist. One saved plan per student and session; printed as a one-page plan or a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 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 an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. A good hour of tutoring is short on talk and long on the student doing the work.

How to use it

  1. Start a plan with the student’s code and the session date.
  2. Write the goal as something the student can do by the end.
  3. Tap in the minutes for each part.
  4. Finish the open prep items.
  5. After the session, copy the plan to the next date and start from your notes.

Plan a session

Why the plan is shaped this way

Most of the time is practice

Students learn a skill by doing it with feedback. Keep teaching to one clear worked example and give most of the session to guided, then independent, practice.

End with a check

One question at the end shows whether the goal was met and tells you where to start next time.

What this is not

A curriculum. It structures one session around a goal you set.

Sources

  1. Rosenshine, B. (2012). Principles of instruction: Research-based strategies that all teachers should know. American Educator, 36(1), 12–19.
  2. Archer, A. L., & Hughes, C. A. (2011). Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching. Guilford Press: I do, we do, you do.
  3. Nickow, A., Oreopoulos, P., & Quan, V. (2020). The impressive effects of tutoring on PreK-12 learning (NBER Working Paper 27476).
  4. Sweller, J., Ayres, P., & Kalyuga, S. (2011). Cognitive Load Theory. Springer: the worked example effect.

The example student and session are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.