Summer Training Series

Hone your tutoring and coaching skills with our Summer Training Series. Explore recordings of webinars led by professional tutors and teachers. Gain valuable insights and practical tips to become a more effective UPchieve Academic Coach and help your students succeed!

As a bonus, all coach training can be counted towards volunteer hours.

Conversation blockers 🚧👷

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Ever feel like a student really isn't involved in a session or getting back to you quickly enough? There are many tactics that have been developed by psychologists and trained negotiators that we can learn to improve our text communications with students. This training focuses on Conversation Blockers, a set of common mistakes that tutors can make that lead to less productive sessions. Refining your messages in small ways can make all the difference!

Student engagement 👨‍🎓💬

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Getting students excited about schoolwork is tough. In this training we’ll explore how you, as a virtual coach, can leverage questions and feedback to help students create connections and build independence. Let’s kick student engagement to the next level!

Personal Statement Workshop ✍️📝

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The personal statement is perhaps the most mystical part of the college application process. Students often approach it with a lot of questions and anxiety: How do I pick the right topic? What am I supposed to say? What do they really want from me?

Join college essay specialist Catherine Andre in a workshop to discuss how to answer these questions and more. We’ll walk through a sample personal statement brainstorming session and answer common questions about how to approach the personal statement and the college application process overall.

Host: Catherine Andre, Forum College Counselor

Growth mindset 🧠💪

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How do you as a tutor and the students you are helping achieve as much growth as possible? Putting key principles into play in your own life will allow you to transfer them more effectively to your students. This training emphasizes the Growth Mindset, how to develop it for yourself, and how to pass it along to students. Getting back to the basics and understanding why they function will help you move past platitudes to deep and enriching development!

Host: Steven Menking, Forum Math and Business Tutor

Crash course on teaching test prep math 📚📐

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An interactive workshop for tutors who can solve any trigonometry problem but have never been trained in the strategies most commonly used by test prep math coaches. Seasoned test prep educator Sara Rahman will walk UPchieve volunteers through a general approach to coaching SAT and ACT math, sharing her go-to tools and resources for teaching essential content as well as best practices for creating an effective tutoring session with limited time.

Host: Sara Rahman, Forum SAT, ACT, ISEE Tutor

Can’t make these times? Don’t worry! Recordings of each training will be available on this page the day after the live event.