Category: Tutor Resources

May QA Drawing + CotW #8

UPDATE: The login change has been pushed back and will likely be happening early next week (Week of June 11th.) If you haven’t already reached out to tutor.support@yup.com and your phone number has changed since registering, please do so as soon as possible.

MAY QA DRAWING WINNER

Congratulations to our winner of the $250 QA Score bonus drawing for the month of May, Kevin Lloyd Esguerra!

Every month we will be drawing a winner at random to win this bonus prize – you can be entered up to 4 times per month for every week your composite score is greater than or equal to 9.0.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK #8

Comment of the Week? More like Comment of Year! Although the student forgot to tag the session with any positive tags, their comment makes it clear why this week, Carina Seah takes the prize!

“The best tutor I have ever had. She really worked with me and explained the topic in many different ways in order for me to really understand. She also didn’t make me stressed about anything as she told me everything in the simplest way and she helped me learn so many different things in such a short amount of time. Thank you for the amazing help, not even my teacher would have explained it this good.”

Although this week’s session is a bit longer, we encourage you to read it and see how simply this tutor explained a trickier Chemistry concept!

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Have a great weekend, tutors!

— Team Yup

 

MathEd in the News + CotW #5

SUGGESTED READ – MathEd in the News

The following article examines the evolution of mathematics education in American classrooms and curriculum as emphasis has shifted away from memorizing facts and towards understanding underlying concepts and processes:

“This is where successful math education starts; with adults who know what questions to ask and who have the skills to help children discover their own solutions.”


Read more: “This is why it’s so hard to help with your kid’s math homework” (Jessica Lahey, Washington Post)

COMMENT OF THE WEEK #5

Congratulations to Comment of the Week winner, Steve Park! For this session, 4 out of 5 positive feedback tags were applied by the student, who left the following comment:

“Thanks for helping me study for my test tomorrow. I feel a lot more confident :)”

Please read through the session and annotations to see why this session helped the student feel better about finding the vertex.

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April QA Drawing + Detailed Session Feedback Form

APRIL COMPOSITE QA SCORE DRAWING WINNER

Congratulations to our winner of the $250 QA Score bonus drawing for the month of April, Carina Seah!

Every month we will be drawing a winner at random to win this bonus prize – you can be entered up to 4 times per month for every week your composite score is greater than or equal to 9.0.


DETAILED SESSION FEEDBACK FORM

In our first webinar, a number of you mentioned the need for more detailed session feedback.  Based on this suggestion, we have developed the new Detailed Session Feedback Form! This form is very similar to submitting a session dispute – however with this form rather than disputing a grade, you are submitting sessions in order to get more detailed feedback on how you can improve.

Maybe there is a specific tag that you continue to be baffled by, a rubric standard for which you often lose points, or maybe there is a particular student that you can never seem to connect well with. Whatever the issue, simply submit the form and we will get back to you. A few things to keep in mind:

  • The discussion will revolve around the session you submit.
  • We can only accept 1 session per tutor per week due to time constraints.
  • This initiative is on a two week trial and, as such, we can only guarantee a response to the first 50 submissions.

Happy Tutoring!

— Team Yup

CotW #3 + Best Method Infographic

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to Comment of the Week winner, Maya Merchant! This session was tagged “Clear Explanation” and received the following comment:

“Thank you so much for your help, I finally understand how to do problems like the one you helped me with.”

Please read through the session and annotations to see why this session helped the student learn something she had been struggling with:

Comment of the Week #3   ›  

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INFOGRAPHIC: BEST SOLUTION METHOD

Follow the flow chart below to help guide your sessions towards the most appropriate solution method for the student and their problem:

Happy tutoring!

— Team Yup

Tutor Fault Tag Examples

As many of you know, we had a great suggestion during our inaugural webinar last month proposing that we provide examples for Tutor Fault tags. It is our hope that these examples will not only provide more clarity for the tags, but increase your understanding of how to avoid them and decrease any feelings of subjectivity in our grading system:

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Please use the Check for Understanding survey below to express any confusion or comments you may have.

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Happy tutoring!

— Team Yup