Guiding Principles

Remind Tutoring is a platform for parents, students, organizations, and school districts to connect with qualified tutors for individualized assistance with achieving academic success. Sessions are personalized and focus on adding value as a component of a complete educational experience with students, teachers, and parents all actively involved.

Before Your Sessions

1. Review previously submitted session summaries, onboarding information, or session-specific information provided in the Remind Tutoring application
• If you don’t receive any of the onboarding information prior to the first session, the best practice is to go through goal-setting and assessment exercises with the student and parent during the first session.
2. Ensure your internet connection is stable, your phone is on do not disturb, and you are in a quiet and professional location
3. Review any homework or worksheets students or their parents have submitted
4. If your students have not submitted any homework or worksheets, please utilize the curriculum resources and your own experience to ensure your students have material to work through
5. Log on to your sessions prior to the scheduled start time
• Students are unable to join a session until you have already done so. In order to ensure your students are able to join their sessions, you should have already joined in a quiet, professional, and comfortable location that is free from distractions. 

During Your Sessions

1. Communicate with your students, and their parents if appropriate, in a respectful and friendly manner
2. If a student does not show for their session:
• Please remain on the session with your video on for at least 15 minutes after the scheduled start time for the session.
• If the student does not show after 15 minutes, you are welcome to disconnect; you will be paid for the full session
• If the student does show up late, you do not need to continue the session after the scheduled end time
3.  If you have any technical issues:
• Reach out to Remind Support by clicking on the “Get Help Live” button for immediate assistance
4. Please remain in the session for the scheduled duration of that session. Some sessions may be scheduled for a shorter or longer period within the hour; parents are charged for the scheduled duration so sessions should not be ended early or extended without prior communication.
5. Set a session goal.
6. Get a confidence level (How do you feel on this topic 1-10).
• If this is a student’s first session, their parent or guardian may be present. Try to get a sense from the student or parent where they’re currently struggling. 

After Your Sessions

1. Complete the session summary while the session is still fresh in your mind. Download the generated pdf, attach and send this to the student and parent through the Remind Thread. A video outlining this process can be seen here.
2. Specifically call out any additional concepts the student can work on between sessions to improve their mastery of the subject.