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Do you want to improve your grades?. Do you lack confidence and organisational skills?. Do you wish to improve your learning through real responsibility?. Have you ever wondered what it's like in your teachers shoes?. Yes?. Then prehaps you should consider becoming an APT Tutor
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Do you want to improve your grades? Do you lack confidence and organisational skills?
Do you wish to improve your learning through real responsibility? Have you ever wondered what it's like in your teachers shoes?
Yes? Then prehaps you should consider becoming an APT Tutor like our friend Fred! (Please note that all names have been changed for security reasons!)
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The tutees and tutors are roughly in the same age group so they are more comfortable around each other Every one in APT is in the same situation so it is less patronising Most APT lessons are one-to-one so more is learnt as the tutees are less likely to be distracted by others
Tutors can empathise with their teachers as they are teaching themselves Tutors become more organised APT Tutors become more careful with their own work as they check it as they would their tutees' work
Here's what the tutees say...
"In APT it has been really fun to have a Year 9 APT Tutor, better than all my other teachers. I have learnt a lot while I have been here, and I then use what we have done in my other lessons. We have done paragraphs, spellings and more." Hannah
"When I first came here I didn't really want to come, but now I like it here because there is only a few of us and we get to learn more than in other lessons. My APT Tutor, Sam, is really nice and makes my learning easier by explaining things clearly. I think APT is a really good idea and that more schools should have it." Rebecca
Here's what the APT Tutors say...
"APT has helped me in virtually every way possible. Both my reading and spelling ages have improved and my confidence has more than doubled. I am more focused in my lessons and I now know how the teachers feel when something doesn't go to plan. I think APT benefits everybody, not just the tutees but the tutors and teachers as well." Becky
"I recently became an APT Tutor and, in the short time I have been with the project, everyone has noticed a change in me, as a person. My confidence and organisational skills have developed and I now understand what my teachers go through when they are struggling to motivate and interest students. I want to be a teacher when I'm older and APT has given me a lot of experience!" Grace
Here's what the staff say ...
"Academic Peer Tutoring shifts the centre of control from the teacher to the students, who manage their behaviour and take responsibility for accessing resources, including the expertise of their teachers. It is unlike the more conventional setting where the teacher disseminates information and students are then confronted with the choice to absorb or reject it, the latter decision leading to what are commonly called 'discipline problems'. With APT, students are educated through personal experience to become mature, responsible, altruistic individuals who have an awarness of the communal nature of a classroom and who are reconnected to their natural curiosity and love of learning." Ms J. Andrews (APT4schools)
"It was most inspiring to see older pupils mentoring the younger - a positive experience for all. I'd be interested to see more of this and be able to utilise it within my subject area because I was so enthused by the way in which it raised achievement levels and had a positive impact on pupils' behaviour and their confidence levels." Ms A. Trevena (NQT)
"APT raises the levels of motivation, commitment and responsibility for their own learning in all students who have involvement in it. Teachers notice an improvement in engagement, attitude and attainment." Mrs J. Turner (SENCO)
