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That personal tutoring leads to better outcomes is not the problem. That will obviously be the case. The problem is how to bridge the gap in a way more people

That personal tutoring leads to better outcomes is not the problem. That will obviously be the case. The problem is how to bridge the gap in a way more people realize similar benefits.

em-bee 4y ago
montessori seems to be the solution here. it is essentially individual tutoring at scale because the teacher/tutor doesn't need to spend 100% of their time with one child. a lot of time the children are practicing on their own, and also they are learning from older students (the tutor doesn't always need to be the most qualified person around, they just need to be able to teach the material that the student is learning). they also don't move on to the next segment until they master the previous one.
- elcomet 4y ago
  This remains to be proved, do you have a source on this?
  - em-bee 4y ago
    i am not aware of any studies unfortunately, i just found this though and it looks like a good start: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-017-0012-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-017-0012-7 "Montessori education: a review of the evidence base" but you just need to look at the montessori methodology to see how it works. it may not be as effective as pure one-on-one tutoring but it is certainly way more effective than regular classroom teaching. keep in mind though that the name montessori is not protected and that there are many schools out there that are montessori in name only without actually having trained teachers. the lack of good studies of montessori is frustrating to me. the montessori method is as scientific as education can get, free of any ideology or philosophy, unlike eg. waldorf, and therefore should be easy to apply on a wider scale. the teacher training is not expensive (about a year) and could easily be integrated into any general teacher education. the teaching material is more elaborate than just books, especially for the younger age groups, but the high cost now is mainly due to a lack of scale.

That personal tutoring leads to better outcomes is not the problem. That will obviously be the case. The problem is how to bridge the gap in a way more people realize similar benefits.

em-bee 4y ago

montessori seems to be the solution here. it is essentially individual tutoring at scale because the teacher/tutor doesn't need to spend 100% of their time with one child. a lot of time the children are practicing on their own, and also they are learning from older students (the tutor doesn't always need to be the most qualified person around, they just need to be able to teach the material that the student is learning). they also don't move on to the next segment until they master the previous one.

elcomet 4y ago
This remains to be proved, do you have a source on this?
- em-bee 4y ago
  i am not aware of any studies unfortunately, i just found this though and it looks like a good start: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-017-0012-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-017-0012-7 "Montessori education: a review of the evidence base" but you just need to look at the montessori methodology to see how it works. it may not be as effective as pure one-on-one tutoring but it is certainly way more effective than regular classroom teaching. keep in mind though that the name montessori is not protected and that there are many schools out there that are montessori in name only without actually having trained teachers. the lack of good studies of montessori is frustrating to me. the montessori method is as scientific as education can get, free of any ideology or philosophy, unlike eg. waldorf, and therefore should be easy to apply on a wider scale. the teacher training is not expensive (about a year) and could easily be integrated into any general teacher education. the teaching material is more elaborate than just books, especially for the younger age groups, but the high cost now is mainly due to a lack of scale.