Tutoring with AI
Transform your tutoring practice with AI tools that diagnose learning gaps, generate personalized materials, automate assessments, and scale your business — while keeping the human connection that makes great tutoring work.
What You'll Learn
- Explain how AI diagnostic tools identify specific knowledge gaps to target instruction more effectively than traditional assessment
- Use AI to generate personalized lesson plans, practice problems, and study materials tailored to each student's level and interests
- Apply the Socratic method through AI-assisted questioning techniques that guide students to discover answers themselves
- Create adaptive assessments with AI that adjust difficulty in real time and provide detailed progress analytics
- Design an AI-enhanced tutoring workflow that reduces administrative time while increasing instructional quality
- Build a scalable tutoring business using AI for client acquisition, session preparation, and student retention
Course Syllabus
The Tutor’s Time Problem
You became a tutor because you love helping students learn. But for every hour you spend teaching, you spend another hour on everything else.
Preparing lesson materials. Grading practice sets. Writing progress reports for parents. Searching for the right worksheet at the right level. Switching context between a struggling 8th-grader in algebra and an advanced 10th-grader in chemistry — back to back.
The average independent tutor spends 40-50% of their working time on preparation and administration rather than actual instruction. That’s half your work week not doing the thing you’re good at — and the thing your students are paying for.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Bloom’s landmark research showed that one-on-one tutoring with mastery learning produces a two standard deviation improvement over classroom instruction. That’s moving the average student from the 50th percentile to the 98th. Tutoring works — the challenge is making it sustainable and scalable.
AI solves both problems. It handles the preparation, diagnostics, and administration so you can focus entirely on the teaching relationship that makes tutoring powerful.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to:
- Diagnose learning gaps using AI tools that pinpoint exactly where each student struggles — not just what they got wrong, but why
- Generate personalized materials in minutes: practice problems, reading passages, worked examples, and study guides matched to each student’s level
- Apply the Socratic method with AI-assisted questioning that guides students to discover answers themselves
- Build adaptive assessments that adjust difficulty in real time and generate detailed progress analytics for parents and students
- Manage a full caseload with AI systems that keep every student’s plan, progress, and preferences organized
- Scale your business using AI for marketing, client communication, and session efficiency
Who This Course Is For
- Independent tutors who want to reduce prep time and improve student outcomes
- Teachers who tutor on the side and need efficient workflows
- Tutoring center staff looking to enhance their practice with technology
- Aspiring tutors who want to launch a competitive, modern practice from day one
- Academic coaches and learning specialists who work 1:1 with students
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) is helpful. If you’ve never used an AI chatbot, take our free AI Fundamentals course first.
How This Course Works
Each lesson takes 10-12 minutes and builds a specific skill in your AI tutoring toolkit:
- Evidence-based techniques grounded in tutoring research (Bloom, Vygotsky, mastery learning)
- Ready-to-use prompts you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude before your next session
- Real scenarios from math, language arts, science, and test prep tutoring
- Business strategies for pricing, marketing, and scaling with AI
Complete all 8 lessons to earn your certificate and have a complete AI-enhanced tutoring system ready for your next student.
Related Skills
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need teaching experience to take this course?
Some tutoring or teaching experience is recommended but not required. This course is designed for practicing tutors, aspiring tutors, and educators who want to enhance their 1:1 instruction with AI. If you understand the basics of working with students, you're ready.
Which AI tools does this course cover?
We cover Khanmigo (Khan Academy's AI tutor), ChatGPT and Claude for content generation, Edcafe AI for assessments, and Socrat.ai for Socratic tutoring. You'll learn principles that transfer to any AI tool, not just specific platforms.
Will AI replace human tutors?
No — and this course explains why. Research shows that AI excels at diagnostics, content generation, and administrative tasks, but human tutors provide irreplaceable motivation, emotional support, and adaptive judgment. This course teaches you to combine both for better outcomes than either alone.
Can I use these techniques for group tutoring or only 1:1?
Both. While the course focuses on 1:1 tutoring (where the research shows the strongest effects), Lesson 6 specifically covers managing multiple students and adapting AI techniques for small group instruction.