Lessons from Teaching My SAT Reading Series at schoolhouse.world
I had the privilege of designing and teaching my own free 8-week SAT Reading tutoring series over this past summer 2021 at schoolhouse.world ! In this post, I walk through a couple of principles and techniques that significantly enhanced my teaching, and I prove their effectiveness through all the quantitative and qualitative student feedback I have received. What is schoolhouse.world? schoolhouse.world (SHW) is a free peer tutoring platform started by Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, with comprehensive tutor certification and training policies in place to foster a safe learning environment. Anyone can tutor and become a student! Discover more testimonials at https://schoolhouse.world/stories . Takeaways Even though I have TA'ed before at UC Berkeley, I learned so much through this series about teaching effectively due to one key challenge: student attendance was completely voluntary. If anything I did were unhelpful, students could simply decide to quit. I really needed t