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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0068 | The Opportunity Check — How a Tutor Distinguishes Missing Capability From a Missing Opportunity to Demonstrate It
THB-0068. The Opportunity Check helps tutors distinguish a learner who cannot yet perform a target capability from a learner who has not been given a fair, relevant or sufficiently independent opportunity to demonstrate it.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0067 | The Change Bandwidth — How a Tutor Limits Active Change So the Learner Can Adapt, the Tutor Can Read the Result and Improvement Can Hold
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0067 · Series ID THB-0067 The Tutor Handbook: Complete series index · Decision quality and route changes. The tutor has a good plan. Actually, the tutor has six good plans. Reduce one prompt. Add mixed practice. Increase timing pressure. Move one topic into maintenance. Give the learner more planning responsibility.…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0066 | The Configuration Snapshot — How a Tutor Keeps One Current Learning Route When Supports, Practice Conditions and Priorities Keep Moving
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0066 · Series ID THB-0066 The Tutor Handbook: Complete series index · Decision quality and route changes. The tutor asks the learner to begin independently. The parent says the learner is still allowed one prompt. The old worksheet still contains a planning frame. The tutor’s notes say the frame was…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0064 | The Change Queue — How a Tutor Handles Several Justified Learning Changes Without Applying Them All at Once
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0064 · Series ID THB-0064 The Tutor Handbook: Complete series index · Decision quality and route changes. The new tutor has made the first change. It was narrow. It was justified. It was recorded. It has a receipt to watch and a condition that would make the tutor reverse it.…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0065 | The Concurrency Problem — How a Tutor Reads Learning When School, Tuition, Home and the Learner Are All Changing the System at Once
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0065 · Series ID THB-0065 The Tutor Handbook: Complete series index · Decision quality and route changes. The tutor changes one thing. The school changes three. The parent changes the evening routine. The learner starts using a new revision app. A new teacher introduces a different answer format. Then the…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0064 | The Change Queue — How a Tutor Orders Several Valid Improvements Without Changing Everything at Once
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0064 · Series ID THB-0064 The Tutor Handbook: Complete series index · Decision quality and route changes. The tutor has earned the right to change the route. Then the learner presents five good reasons to change it. Alicia needs more realistic timing in Mathematics. Beatrice needs tighter evidence selection in…