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Over the years, Eemon has found a basic structure that he trains TRU Tutors to Follow:
What do you know?
a. Students usually know how to answer questions, they just need to be asked the right ones. TRU Tutors ask their students probing questions that pushed the student to use their own base of knowledge to sold the problem themselves.
Tutor: "So what's five plus three?"
Student: "seven"
Tutor: "Ok so if that's true then seven minus three should be what?"
Student: "five"
Tutor: "Ok so is that the case?"
Student: "No"
Tutor: "Ok so what does that tell us?"
Student: "Five plus three isn't seven"
b. Notice how the tutor didn't tell the student five plus three was eight instead of seven. By asking questions, they were able to poke holes in the student's answer and have the student conclude themselves that they made an error. This method helps get at the root of the misunderstanding and also provies the student a framework for cheching their own framework in the future.
Alternate Scenarios
b. When a student is facing a complicated problem, we teach them how to solve it by going through examples of other problems that are moire basic, and then challenging the student to use what they just covered to solve the original problem they were stuck on.
Drills
b. Immediately after going over a new topic or seeing that a student is unsure, TRU Tutors will write out several questions that target that topic in different ways. This forces the student to immediately reinforce an unfamiliar topic and go over gaps in understanding. Research shows that reviewing a topic immediately after it's learned improves retention.
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