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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0012 | The First Review — How a Tutor Decides Whether to Continue, Advance, Reclassify or Stop a Learning Route
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0012 · Series ID THB-0012 A learning route should not continue merely because it has begun. That sounds obvious. In practice, it is one of the hardest disciplines in tutoring. A tutor finds a weakness. A plan is built. Worksheets are selected. The parent settles into a routine. The student…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0011 | The First Month — How Repeated Lessons Turn Early Hypotheses Into a Stable Teaching Route
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0011 · Series ID THB-0011 A first lesson can produce a plausible story. A second lesson can test it. A month is where the tutor discovers whether the story is strong enough to carry a real teaching route. This is the point where tutoring stops being a sequence of promising…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0010 | The Second Lesson — Test the First Hypothesis Before Turning It Into a Long-Term Plan
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0010 · Series ID THB-0010 The first lesson gives the tutor a story. The second lesson has to decide whether the story deserves to survive. This is one of the most important transitions in tutoring because first impressions are seductive. A tutor meets a student, sees an error pattern, forms…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0009 | The First Lesson — What a Tutor Should Learn About the Student Before Trying to Teach Too Much
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0009 · Series ID THB-0009 The first lesson is often wasted because everybody is in a hurry to prove that tutoring has begun. The parent wants to see teaching. The tutor wants to be useful. The student expects worksheets. So the tutor starts explaining. That may be the first mistake.…
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0008 | Tutor–Student Fit — Match the Right Tutor Function to the Learner’s Actual Condition
Tutor Handbook Vol 0008 explains tutor–student fit as a dynamic match between learner condition, tutor function, tutorial size, subject demand and time horizon—and how to review whether the fit is actually producing greater independent capability.
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The Tutor Handbook Vol No.0007 | Learning Architect — Integrate the Whole Learning System Without Making the Learner Dependent on the Tutor
The Tutor Handbook · Volume 0007 · Series ID THB-0007 A tutor can become very good at solving the student’s problems and still become part of the student’s biggest problem. That is the uncomfortable starting point for the Learning Architect. The student may have a caring tutor, accurate explanations, strong notes, regular practice, carefully chosen…
