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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wondering if this would work. Use peer tutoring. A group of peer tutors can be supervised by an adult teacher/tutor. That way, you don't need a whole huge number of teachers, and the kids can a) gain a skill, and b)get some volunteer hours (which they need anyway).

For instance, my MS DD has been helping out a couple of friends with math during their spare time - recess, lunch, certain electives. She says their problems are foundational - lack of computational fluency, not understanding concepts such as fractions, decimals, percentages, and their interchangeability, and so on. She has reached out to her math teacher to say that she's available to help anyone that needs it, but kids aren't approaching teachers with their needs.

I'm willing to bet there are thousands of kids out there that would be happy to spend some of their free hours to help out their peers (or younger kids), but there is no official mechanism to match up kids needing help with kids willing to help.[/quote]

Most (all?) high schools do this. A requirement for honor society memberships everywhere I’ve taught is hours tutoring. I spend a decent chunk of time each week coordinating schedules for kids to meet in my room during 4th period, lunch, or after school for math hours.[/quote]

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