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Homework Support: Grades 1-12 (ESL and non-ESL Students) (Ages 5-18)

Homework Assignment: Before each Class

Before a typical class starts, I will generally email or provide through Google Docs, homework that I'd like a student to attempt. Ideally, everything is assigned and agreed upon at the end of the previous class, but sometimes I don't have the homework I want to assign until after the class has finished. I try to assign about 3 hours of homework for a student to complete between classes. This can be readings, writing work, or simply something they can listen to through YouTube throughout the course of the week. 

Class Preparation (Student's Work)

In order to be helpful for students, I ask that before class, students provide me with what they want to work on during our tutoring session. Whenever possible, they should email or share through Google Docs rubrics, completed and present assignments, and teacher instructions and notes for me with as much notice as they can, so that I can spend some time reviewing their work before our meeting. I plan a class around the problems and challenges I see in the student's old or current homework. Part of each tutoring sessions is a review and analysis of old homework or current assignments that a student provided me before the meeting. 

The Class

During a tutoring session, I try to do several things:

  • Review the homework that I assigned and analyze what was done, what wasn't, and how useful it was in general to the student. 

  • Review the schoolwork that I received from them and provide feedback

  • Spend time reviewing their schoolwork and what help they want from me this session

  • Spend time providing new links/readings (if I have them immediately available, otherwise I'll email them later) and explain to the student how to complete them. Discuss whether the additional homework provides value to them and whether they want to take it on. The goal is to provide extra work for them to practice, but it should be work that they are interested in, makes sense to them, and are willing to do.  

After the Class

I let the parent/guardian (if the student is not arranging classes themselves) know that the class has finished, and that I will start preparing for the next one. The payment for the class should be made after the class, ideally within 24 hours (at latest, before the subsequent class begins). I email students resources/readings/new homework as soon as I have something ready for them to review (ideally within a day, but this could take longer depending on my own schedule). Once I've sent them their homework and completed my preparation time, I let the student or their parent/guardian know that I'm ready to book the next class, and once the student has finished their homework, we arrange the next date and time for a meeting. 

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