We will achieve our vision by seeking smart, person-centred ways to transform one of the most difficult systemic problems in education, from the starting point of the individual lives of young people outwards. We’re doing this by building a different kind of teaching community, one made up of resourceful, resilient, caring tutors, who are ceaselessly driven by the profound impact they can have on young lives enabling these tutors to provide effective, empathetic, life-changing tuition to children living in care and disadvantage.
School districts partnered with Equal Education to provide a regional scale tutoring intervention programme to improve the educational outcomes of Children in Care in schools. The programme has a strict design on assessments, methodology and delivery. This was to ensure that the tutoring was helping vulnerable students to attain higher.
The Tuition: Individualized Learning Programme (TILP) is designed to,
- Target literacy attainment
- Provide accurate assessment using the New Group Reading Test (NGRT)
- Identify gaps in learning and provide strategies, suggestions, and interventions
- Address pupils’ individual needs through teaching strategies and Reading Wise
- Individual support – School teaching staff (SEMH), ReadingWise and EE Operational lead.
- Raise attainment alongside supporting their emotional needs (SEMH).
The Tuition: Individualised Learning Programme (TILP) is a three-term programme. As part of the TILP project, teaching staff were carefully chosen to carry out 1-1 tuition (25hrs), where they already had a good relationship with the young person. This enabled the ‘Tutor – Tutee’ to build a stronger relationship and enable the young person to fully engage in the tuition and make progress as a result by raising their attainment whilst supporting their emotional needs.
- To support scheduling
- Sharing tutoring session content Reporting attendance
- Sharing academic progress
- Sharing social or emotional progress
- Accessing student information
- Sharing at-home support suggestions
- Family/Caregiver survey
- Goal setting and monitoring progress toward goals
Paul Singh (paul@equaleducation.co.uk)