{"id":11488,"date":"2021-05-20T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:51:49","slug":"nsw-students-benefit-from-tutoring-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/nsw-students-benefit-from-tutoring-program\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM TUTORING PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in NSW schools are benefitting from the NSW Government\u2019s history-making $337 million COVID catch up program.<br \/>\nMinister for Education Sarah Mitchell confirmed today that 5417 tutors have been employed in NSW public schools, with almost 99 per cent of schools already offering tutoring support to their students.<br \/>\n\u201cWe know COVID-19 had an impact on education during the 2020 school year. Our tutoring program is helping students catch up after those disruptions,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe tailored model is important. Schools told us they needed the flexibility to deliver this program in a way that helps their students best.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHelping students bridge the gaps in their education caused by COVID is part of this government\u2019s efforts to build a safer and stronger NSW.\u201d<br \/>\nThe additional support is tailored by schools using both the data from last year\u2019s Check-in Assessments and the knowledge of classroom teachers.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are also helping schools in regional and remote areas with access to expert educators to help them create tutoring programs for their community,\u201d Ms Mitchell said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe program has had fantastic take-up by our country schools, and more than 3200 of the tutors who are delivering the program are in regional, rural and remote schools.<br \/>\n\u201cThis means no matter where a school is in NSW or how many students they have, they can provide a tutoring program which works for their students.\u201d<br \/>\nRegistrations are still open to educators interested in taking part at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.nsw.gov.au\/teaching-and-learning\/curriculum\/covid-learning-support-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/education.nsw.gov.au\/teaching-and-learning\/curriculum\/covid-learning-support-program<\/a><br \/>\nExisting Department of Education staff should register interest through ClassCover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in NSW schools are benefitting from the NSW Government\u2019s history-making $337 million COVID catch up program. Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell confirmed today that 5417 tutors have been employed in NSW public schools, with almost 99 per cent of schools already offering tutoring support to their students. \u201cWe know COVID-19 had an impact on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/nsw-students-benefit-from-tutoring-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSW STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM TUTORING PROGRAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}