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“I Don’t Know Who Gets More Out of It, the Children or Us Tutors”: The Online Intergenerational Tutoring Program

  • Northeastern University
  • University of Massachusetts Boston

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Abstract

The Online Intergenerational Tutoring Program addresses a service delivery gap in schools because older adult volunteers expand schools’ capacity to implement evidence-based instruction with students in need of individual support. Tutoring includes dialogic reading with digital books and Tutoring Buddy, a web-based program used to improve children’s letter sound fluency. Developed during the school closures resulting from COVID-19, the program uses online technology to deliver individual instruction to students after school. Our preliminary research found online intergenerational tutoring is a promising, socially valid model for addressing students’ learning loss resulting from the pandemic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)238-242
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Intergenerational Relationships
Volume22
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Social Psychology
  • Archaeology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology
  • Life-span and Life-course Studies

Keywords

  • children
  • early literacy
  • Older adults
  • tutoring

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