Category: Blog
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0169 | The Behaviour–Learning Differential — How a Tutor Responds to Off-Task, Refusal or Disruptive Behaviour Without Assuming the Problem Is Motivation When the Task, Support or Group Conditions May Be Driving It
THB-0169 — How tutors read off-task, refusal and disruptive behaviour as evidence to investigate, separating expectations, task difficulty, support, group conditions and learner agency before assigning a motivation story.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0168 | The Schedule-Substitution Gate — How a Tutor Decides Whether Another Lesson Is Worth What the Extra Tuition Would Displace
THB-0168 — How tutors judge the marginal value of another lesson against the independent study, school instruction, rest, family time or other learning opportunity that the extra session would replace.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0167 | The Modality-Shift Gate — How a Tutor Moves Between In-Person and Live-Online Tuition Without Treating the Same Lesson Plan, Interaction or Evidence as Automatically Equivalent
THB-0167 — How tutors preserve the learning target while re-declaring evidence, interaction, access and support conditions when tuition moves between in-person and live-online delivery.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0166 | The Human-Supported AI Engagement Gate — How a Tutor Knows Whether Helping a Learner Use an AI Tutor Is Creating Learning Opportunity or Merely More Screen Time
THB-0166 — How tutors judge whether human support around learner-facing AI increases meaningful learning opportunity, rather than merely increasing logins, messages or minutes, and how to verify the target capability afterwards.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0165 | The Instructional Material Coherence Gate — How a Tutor Uses School Materials, Worksheets, Question Banks and AI-Generated Practice Without Fragmenting the Learning Route
THB-0165 — How tutors combine school materials, textbooks, worksheets, question banks and AI-generated practice into one coherent learning route without creating hidden shifts in prerequisites, representations, vocabulary, method cues or difficulty.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0164 | The Individual Accountability Gate — How a Tutor Uses Three-Learner Collaboration Without Letting the Group’s Best Answer Stand In for Each Learner’s Understanding
THB-0164 — How tutors design three-learner collaboration so every learner thinks, contributes and later demonstrates their own understanding instead of letting one fluent voice become the group’s evidence.
