How tutors can use AI

Effective tutoring requires a personalized approach to learning. Save time generating materials and focus on teaching with AI tutoring tools.

Get tips on how to tutor with AI

New to tutoring? Learn best practices, sharpen your skills, and improve student learning outcomes with AI. AI offers adaptable tutoring strategies, communication techniques, and supplemental teaching resources to enhance your lessons. Get tutoring guidance with these or your own prompts:

I’m going to be tutoring students in math for the first time. Do you have any tips on communicating with students effectively?
How can I encourage critical thinking during my tutoring lessons?
Here’s a lesson plan I created for my engineering student: [lesson plan]. Please review and provide a bulleted list of feedback.
How can I improve learning outcomes for my students who are visual learners?

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Create lesson plans

Draft lesson plans with AI guidance. Outline key topics and subjects based on your student’s curriculum. For example, if you’re an algebra tutor, generate a lesson plan that starts with basic vocabulary then moves into more difficult sequences like graphing. Use these or your own prompts to try it out:

Create a lesson plan that covers the water cycle with added information about sublimation, runoff, and infiltration.
Generate a worksheet about Roman history including a fill-in-the-blank timeline and writing prompts.
Draft three lesson plan structures I can use for my upcoming tutoring sessions on [subject].
I’m tutoring my student on the Mesozoic Era. Create a lesson plan that covers the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.

“Draft lesson plans with AI guidance. Outline key topics and subjects based on your student’s curriculum.”

Plan your tutoring schedule

Plan your daily tutoring schedule with AI by outlining lesson plans and getting time estimates for each segment. Keep sessions productive with time-management strategies and planned break guidance. Use these or your own prompts to optimize your tutoring schedule:

Provide an optimized lesson plan for a 60-minute [subject] tutoring session including a warm-up, main lesson, practice, and review.
Suggest time-management strategies to keep my tutoring sessions productive and engaging for students.
How should I structure my 45-minute tutoring sessions to optimize learning?
I’m teaching three students today between 1 and 3 PM. How should I schedule out my time to include a five-minute break between each student?

Generate supplemental learning materials

AI creates study guides, outlines, sample questions, worksheets, and other learning materials based on your students’ needs. Looking to test a student’s knowledge? Create quizzes and tests scaled to their skill level. Generate customized feedback and explanations for any wrong answers with AI tools. Try these or your own example prompts:

Create an eight-question quiz about [subject], adjusting the difficulty based on the student’s answers.
Create 12 sample questions with step-by-step solutions for a beginner chemistry student.
Make a study guide for students with the following sections: outline of subject matter, practice questions, and answers and explanations.
Design a reading comprehension worksheet based on a short passage about [topic] with five multiple-choice and three open-ended questions.

Streamline your tutoring sessions and maximize student success with these AI-powered solutions. Looking for more AI guidance? Explore other ways to use AI on our Life Hacks hub.

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