Coach Training
Hone your coaching skills by exploring recordings of past teacher-run webinars and asynchronous training sessions to UPskill your coaching.
As a bonus, all coach training can be counted towards volunteer hours.
Teacher-Led Webinars
OvercomE barriers to learning ❤️🧠
Student learning is about more than just content. Learn about the social and emotional barriers your students might be facing and how to work through them. Focusing on the social emotional side of learning will not only help with your session, but will give your students skills to help them continue to succeed.
maximize student learning 💪🏽📚
In the best tutoring sessions, students do most of the work. Learn how to shift the responsibility from you to the students you work with with small changes to your sessions. You’ll get practical examples of strategies like asking questions, giving feedback, and modeling examples.
Interactive Training
Coaches tell us all the time that their biggest challenge on UPchieve is keeping students motivated throughout their sessions. These interactive training modules will help you learn proven strategies to become a better coach. We created this training as part of a pilot with the PLUS project at Carnegie Mellon University. As part of a research pilot, participants must be 18 or over.
Giving Effective Praise
Praise is a key tool in boosting student confidence, but it has to be meaningful. This interactive training shares scenarios that could really happen on UPchieve and gives you the tools to deal with them effectively.
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Responding to student errors
Student errors happen every day. Responding to them gives you a chance to engage students more deeply or to demotivate them. Make sure you’re using the most effective strategies.
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Learning what students know
Before you start tutoring, it’s critical to get an understanding of what students know already. Learn strategies you can apply in your next session to do this most effectively.
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