TUTOR for Secondaries

Why secondary schools are using TUTOR

TUTOR is an Intelligent Tutoring System which allows secondary schools to assess pupils’ disparate starting points, identify knowledge gaps, and then offer individualised, targeted teaching to all, regardless of their stage of maths maturation. TUTOR covers every stage of maths from counting to calculus, meaning it can support all pupils from those needing support with place value right through to those aiming for top grades in Further Maths. Secondary schools use TUTOR as part of their intervention programme, for personalised home-learning, and as an integrated support package in lessons.

Why secondary schools are using TUTOR

TUTOR is an Intelligent Tutoring System which allows secondary schools to assess pupils’ disparate starting points, identify knowledge gaps, and then offer individualised, targeted teaching to all, regardless of their stage of maths maturation. TUTOR covers every stage of maths from counting to calculus, meaning it can support all pupils from those needing support with place value right through to those aiming for top grades in Further Maths. Secondary schools use TUTOR as part of their intervention programme, for personalised home-learning, and as an integrated support package in lessons.

What is an Intelligent
Tutoring System?

Intelligent Tutoring Systems are known to be the most impactful form of supplementary education. It may feel slightly counterintuitive, but ITSs have been repeatedly shown to be even more effective than one-to-one human tutoring. An Intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is a computer system that provides immediate and customised instruction or feedback to pupils, enabling learning in a meaningful and highly effective manner. You can read more about the impact of Intelligent Tutoring Systems here

What is an Intelligent
Tutoring System?

Intelligent Tutoring Systems are known to be the most impactful form of supplementary education. It may feel slightly counterintuitive, but ITSs have been repeatedly shown to be even more effective than one-to-one human tutoring. An Intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is a computer system that provides immediate and customised instruction or feedback to pupils, enabling learning in a meaningful and highly effective manner. You can read more about the impact of Intelligent Tutoring Systems here

1. Personalised intervention for all pupils

1. Personalised intervention for all pupils

Intervention is most effective when delivered 1-1 by an expert teacher who knows exactly where their pupil’s knowledge gaps are: TUTOR makes it possible to deliver such intervention to whole groups of pupils at once.

Sir James Smith’s have been using TUTOR as an intervention tool for specific groups of pupils, as well as a compulsory homework tool across the whole school.

Intervention is most effective when delivered 1-1 by an expert teacher who knows exactly where their pupil’s knowledge gaps are: TUTOR makes it possible to deliver such intervention to whole groups of pupils at once.

Sir James Smith’s have been using TUTOR as an intervention tool for specific groups of pupils, as well as a compulsory homework tool across the whole school.

2. Pre-teaching and consolidating lesson content

2. In-school TUTOR time

3. Engaging parents in home learning

3. Engaging parents in home learning

How can I introduce TUTOR to my pupils?

How can I introduce TUTOR to my pupils?

At Scarborough UTC, SENCO Hayley Briggs decided to start by targeting a focused group of pupils, recognising that “you need to walk before you can run”. Their initial TUTOR rollout focused on a group of pupils following testing of the whole cohort using the Progress Test in Maths, where a score of 100 is the average for pupils of the same age nationally.

This year, around a third of Year 10 UTC pupils’ scores were low for their age at between 70-90. Hayley was able to target these pupils with three sessions per week of 20 minutes on TUTOR, with a TA with them for support, and was even able to extend this to a pupil with a score of 93, despite the high proportion of pupils needing support.

Read on to find out Hayley and her team managed their TUTOR rollout:

At Scarborough UTC, SENCO Hayley Briggs decided to start by targeting a focused group of pupils, recognising that “you need to walk before you can run”. Their initial TUTOR rollout focused on a group of pupils following testing of the whole cohort using the Progress Test in Maths, where a score of 100 is the average for pupils of the same age nationally.

This year, around a third of Year 10 UTC pupils’ scores were low for their age at between 70-90. Hayley was able to target these pupils with three sessions per week of 20 minutes on TUTOR, with a TA with them for support, and was even able to extend this to a pupil with a score of 93, despite the high proportion of pupils needing support.

Read on to find out Hayley and her team managed their TUTOR rollout:

Next academic year, Scarborough UTC will be welcoming year 9 pupils for the first time, as well as a new year 10 intake. Hayley has big plans for SEN provision during this period of change:

Next academic year, Scarborough UTC will be welcoming year 9 pupils for the first time, as well as a new year 10 intake. Hayley has big plans for SEN provision during this period of change: