Staff one-to-one tutoring with trained school staff rather than community volunteers¶
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Evidence · no claims cited
Description¶
The program specifies that "Classroom teachers, reading teachers, or well-prepared paraprofessionals are needed to serve as tutors," while "Community volunteers are not suggested as tutors." Tutoring quality is treated as depending on staff who receive extensive training, observation, and feedback, so schools implementing one-to-one tutoring should assign trained staff rather than volunteers.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Access to classroom teachers, reading teachers, or well-prepared paraprofessionals to serve as tutors
Constraints¶
- Community volunteers are not suggested as tutors
Target Learners¶
- first-grade struggling readers
Learning Goals¶
- improved word attack and passage comprehension
Claims¶
- Early Steps Tutoring Improves Word Attack Passage Comprehension [+M]
Related Designs¶
- Early Steps One To One Tutoring Program
- Early Steps — the first-grade tutoring programme that sets this staffing requirement
- Daily one-to-one tutoring session structure — the Early Steps session these tutors deliver
- Early Steps trainer observation and feedback training — the training, observation and feedback the requirement relies on
- Scripted one-to-one paraprofessional tutoring — a contrasting answer: scripts let paraprofessionals tutor
Examples¶
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Key Sources¶
- Early Steps. (2024). Evidence for ESSA program description. https://www.evidenceforessa.org
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Staff one-to-one tutoring with trained school staff rather than community volunteers |
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The program specifies that "Classroom teachers, reading teachers, or well-prepared paraprofessionals are needed to serve as tutors," while "Community volunteers are not suggested as tutors." Tutoring quality is treate... |
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