College Students Approved to Give Free Online Tutoring to K-12 Students

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8 min readJun 4, 2020

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What is GoPeer?

GoPeer.org pairs vetted college students who attend top universities with students between the ages of 5–18 for 1-to-1 tutoring lessons.

College students from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and +50 other top universities are available to tutor K-12 students for free. Tutors are available to teach anywhere between 1-hour to 10-hours per week, per child, depending on your specific learning goals. Also, there are over 153 subjects available!

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How do Free Online Tutoring Lessons Work?

Students and tutors communicate through GoPeer’s secure online classroom, using tools like real-time face-to-face video conferencing, photo/document sharing, and a virtual whiteboard/notepad to collaborate or edit essays.

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GoPeer’s Collaborative Virtual Classroom

100% FREE Volunteer-Powered Tutoring Program

GoPeer’s mission is to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is why GoPeer offers affordable tutoring packages through our low-cost program. However, we know that even this low-cost is still a barrier to education for some families. We encourage these families to apply to our 100% FREE volunteer-powered tutoring program.

How It Works?

Fill out the enrollment form, which will be reviewed by the GoPeer Team
Create a free profile
After vetting the enrollment form, we pair accepted students with a volunteer GoPeer Tutor.
After a tutor is matched with a student, they work out a schedule via GoPeer’s secured messaging system and meet in our unique online classroom.

Apply Here

Thanks for your interest in enrolling in GoPeer’s Free volunteer-powered tutoring program! We do our best to help all families in need of support for their students. To get started, please fill out this application:

Enroll in the FREE Volunteer-Powered Tutoring Program

Benefits of Near Peer Tutoring

Not only can a near-peer mentor provide personalized, up-to-date academic guidance, but also he or she can do so with the empathy that only someone who has recently been in the student’s shoes can provide.

Our Instructors

What truly sets GoPeer apart is our instructors. We’re extremely selective — we hire fewer than 5% of applicants, and our tutors come from top-tier colleges & universities. We believe that GoPeer’s instructors are the best in their field and provide mentorship that other tutors don’t offer.

You can view the qualifications & experience of available GoPeer Tutors at GoPeer.org.

How do GoPeer Tutoring Lessons Work?

GoPeer’s Innovative Approach to Tutoring

Whether a student needs help with homework, studying for an exam, SAT/ACT test prep, or simply wants to learn something new — the way GoPeer Tutors teach helps students build confidence, master concepts, and apply their learnings for long-term success.

At GoPeer, we know that no two students learn the same way! Some students are visual learners who process information with help from images and spatial relations. Other students may prefer to talk through concepts to understand them. No matter how they prefer to learn, we believe that every student deserves 1-on-1 personalized instruction tailored to their needs.

This belief is a GoPeer cornerstone and a North Star that guides the development of our teaching methods and technology.

The Three Pillars of GoPeer Pedagogy

Growth mindset

GoPeer Tutors use encouraging language to promote Growth Mindset, a concept pioneered by Stanford professor and leading motivation researcher Carol Dweck, PhD. Growth Mindset is the idea that we grow and better ourselves by learning from mistakes because a positive and supportive learning environment helps students do their best.

Socratic method

GoPeer Tutors ask guiding questions so that students take a more active role in reaching solutions. There’s a misconception that strong teaching is someone explaining something at you. We believe a collaborative approach rooted in Socratic inquiry is crucial for that long-term understanding.

Learning, not cheating

GoPeer Tutors do not just give away answers. Instead, tutors utilize the Socratic Method and encouraging language to help students learn concepts so that they can confidently apply them long-term — on homework, tests, and in their future classes.

Of course, these are just a few of the ways in which GoPeer supports personalized, one-on-one learning.

Learn How GoPeer’s Technology Powers Our Tutoring

Over the last three years, we have met and spoken with thousands of tutors and students to carefully refine our virtual classroom. From the insights learned, we have created the most versatile digital classroom that makes online tutoring personalized, effective, and collaborative.

With GoPeer, an online tutor offers the same face-to-face personalized tutoring experience as an in-person tutor but uses our state-of-the-art live learning platform to meet with you over the Internet.

We often speak with families who are skeptical about online tutoring, but once they try it, the students typically love it and see great results.

You might not know the specifics of exactly what happens during a private online tutoring lesson, so we wanted to describe our classes to make sure you understand what your student will experience!

During the Lesson

GoPeer’s proprietary live learning platform features a secured online classroom, face-to-face video conferencing, virtual whiteboards and saved lessons for easy review and reference.

In the online classroom, both the student and tutor can take control of the learning environment or annotate the screen — this means that the tutor can type out examples, help the student navigate to a particular tool or highlight where in the workspace the student should look for errors — all without switching seats. With GoPeer, students can move at their own pace with the personalized attention of their instructor.

Students and tutors communicate through GoPeer’s secure online classroom, using tools like real-time face-to-face video conferencing, photo/document sharing, and a virtual whiteboard/notepad to collaborate or edit essays.

Lessons are Face-to-Face and always 1-on-1

Easy to use, convenient, safe and secure.

Collaboration Tools:

Interactive whiteboard — Students and tutors can write, type, and draw on a digital whiteboard.
Essay editing — easily review & edit word documents
Note taking — take notes on a shared notepad
Collaborative file sharing — Share files like diagrams, homework, graphs, and tests — then annotate or write on top of the worksheets or images.
High-quality video & audio communication — It feels like an in-person lesson.
Chat via instant messaging — Need a little extra help after the session? You can always chat with your tutor to ask questions.
Review past lessons — students and tutors can review their work from past lessons that they have saved. Reviewing sessions is a great way to brush up on concepts while studying or doing homework.

After the lesson

The learning doesn’t stop when the session is over. To keep parents and guardians in the loop, the tutor adds a summary of the student’s lesson progress after each class. Because the classes are 1-on-1, if a student falls behind, our instructors are able to accommodate them and adjust the teaching strategies accordingly. We regularly check in with parents to make sure that everyone is on the right track.

Connecting with a GoPeer Tutor via the 100% FREE Volunteer-Powered Tutoring Program

GoPeer’s mission is to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is why GoPeer offers affordable tutoring packages through our low-cost program. However, we know that even this low-cost is still a barrier to education for some families. We encourage these families to apply to our FREE volunteer-powered tutoring program.

How It Works?

Fill out the enrollment form, which will be reviewed by the GoPeer Team
Create a free profile
After vetting the enrollment form, we pair accepted students with a volunteer GoPeer Tutor.
After a tutor is matched with a student, they work out a schedule via GoPeer’s secured messaging system and meet in our unique online classroom.

Apply Here

Thanks for your interest in enrolling in GoPeer’s Free volunteer-powered tutoring program! We do our best to help all families in need of support for their students. To get started, please fill out this application:

Enroll in the FREE Volunteer-Powered Tutoring Program

Connecting with a GoPeer Tutor via the Low-Cost Program

GoPeer’s mission is to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is why GoPeer offers affordable tutoring packages that range from $25-$35 per hour (Learn more about packages here and how to get a free lesson code).

There are two ways that you can connect with a GoPeer Tutor.

Search on our website to view available tutors. On our website, you can view their qualifications & experience and compare ratings & reviews. All tutors on our educational team go through an extensive vetting process to ensure that they will provide the highest quality experience. You can browse available tutors here.
Request Personalized Recommendations. We pair students with instructors based on their desired learning outcomes, personality fit, interests, and availability. Tap here to Request Personalized Recommendations