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Tutoring: The Human Superpower gilesleeper
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5.0 • 9 Ratings
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Giles Leeper uses science and storytelling to expose the exciting possibilities that arise from recognizing that tutoring and not classroom teaching is how human brains are uniquely designed to teach and learn.
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Parental Tutoring Changes Brains: Interview with Dr. Stuart Hammond
Why do parents have such a big impact on which kids succeed in school and beyond? One of the answers has to do with a simple but poorly understood concept called “parental scaffolding”. Developmental psychology professor, Stuart Hammond, joins us today to help explain research showing how parents impact their child’s brain development with decisions that often do not seem as important as they are.
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Timmy Matthews Can Learn
Why do so many smart people find it hard to learn in classrooms? Why can’t an education system that was good enough for our grandparents be good enough for us? The first episode addresses some of the major themes and mysteries of modern education, while telling the story of Timmy Matthews–a person who, like so many of us, could learn well from tutoring but found classroom teaching to be disastrously ineffective.
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Trailer
For the last three centuries, American communities have been amongst the most educationally radical in the world. The colonial education movement in the 18th century, the common schools movement in the 19th, and the high school movement in the 20th each made a quality education more accessible to everyone. The impact of these education movements contributed to many advances, most of which we now take for granted. But the world didn't stop changing and complexifying.
In the 21st century, our communities must again do something big for the education of our children, or continue to see a darkening future for generations to come. But there is hope. There is something as grand as what came before that we have yet to try. For the last 50 years, evidence has been piling up that humans don't actually learn or teach very well in traditional classrooms. We are far better at tutoring. With this podcast, Tutoring: The Human Superpower, educator and researcher Giles Leeper explores with guests the origins, uses, opportunities, and barriers of our shared hidden superpower. Together, we explore the question, what it would mean to finally unleash this uniquely human superpower?
Customer Reviews
Putting puzzle pieces together for parents and educators
So so good. Giles Leeper is opening my eyes to what actually works in helping young people develop personally and academically at school and at home.
Unlike any conversations being had
This content is unlike any other conversations being had about education. It’s clear something needs to change, and these ideas and perspectives are sorely needed.
There is hope!
Dean Leeper’s first episode presents a powerful case for improving learning through mentoring. Leeper’s personal success as an education innovator as well as his knowledge of education and learning research makes his advocacy extremely convincing. This first episode is professionally done and is entertaining as well as informative. Can’t wait to hear the rest!