High-Dosage Tutoring, Kenya-Style
Posted: February 22nd, 2015 | Author: Michael Goldstein | | 2 Comments »
No Match Corps available here. Sixth graders tutoring 1st graders. Every day for 40 minutes, in math.
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Mike
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I'm Mike Goldstein, founder of Match Education, and the Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education, both in Boston. I happily worked there from 1998 to 2013, and am now a board member and volunteer advisor.
In May 2013 I began work with Bridge International Academies, a rapidly growing network of 134 schools in Kenya. Background story in NY Times here. I'm excited and daunted by the challenge.
Over the years, I've served on various advisory boards, including transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Blue Engine, Blueprint Schools, Lee Academy Pilot School, and Education Sector. Dig basketball. My Gmail address is MikeGoldsteinBridge.
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Reminds of a tutorial network program in Mexico called tutorias. Got to visit many of the schools, and the work is very interesting! Although a very different approach to curriculum development, utilizes a local network of students that develop their own units and teach to others.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_4546385.html
How’s it working?
Have you tried more near-peer — 6th graders tutoring 5th graders — to reinforce more recently learned concepts / see if 6th graders seem to get more out of it?