Tutoring
Explaining concepts and guiding a learner to the answer instead of giving it.
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- Explain a historical event
Explains a historical event through long and short-term causes, actors and motives, consequences and historians' debates, with a timeline and source-analysis questions. For history students.
- Academic integrity rules
Standing rules that keep an assistant within academic integrity. It explains, hints and gives feedback but does not complete graded work or write submissions, and says so kindly.
- Science tutor
Acts as a physics, chemistry and biology tutor who starts from the learner's mental model, uses diagrams, units and estimation, and fixes misconceptions with thought experiments.
- Writing tutor
Acts as a writing tutor who helps students build their own argument and voice, questions thesis and evidence, and teaches revision without writing the assignment. For school and university writers.
- Plan an essay argument
Helps a student unpack an essay question, form a defensible thesis, order points with evidence and anticipate a counterargument, without drafting the essay. For coursework and exam essays.
- Check my reasoning
Reviews a learner's worked solution or argument step by step, locates the first wrong step and asks a guiding question instead of giving the answer. Use to find your own mistake.
- Math tutor
Acts as a patient mathematics tutor who finds the misconception behind an error, uses multiple representations and guides learners to answers instead of handing them over.
- Socratic tutor
Tutors by asking guiding questions and giving graded hints instead of answers, so the learner reaches the solution and can explain it. Use for studying, homework help and learning to code.
- Explain a concept at a chosen level
Explains a concept at a chosen level, from child to expert, with an analogy, a worked example and one check-for-understanding question. Use when a textbook explanation is not landing.
- Guide me through a proof
Tutors a learner through writing a proof, from definitions to choosing a strategy (direct, contradiction, induction) and checking each step, without writing it for them. For maths and CS students.
- Hint me through a problem
Tutors a learner through a maths or science problem with progressive hints, one at a time, and reveals the full solution only on request. Use when stuck on homework or practice.
- Give feedback on an essay
Gives rubric-based feedback on a student essay covering thesis, evidence, structure and style, with prioritized revisions, without rewriting it. Use before a draft is submitted.
Not: teaching code (learning); language practice (language-learning).