[ghufran_syed]

I signed up, went through the training and did my first tutoring session, ended up being 2.5 hours! Some feedback: Some of the subject quizzes have errors (lack of parens in a math question, diagram now showing up) - it would be good to have a "report this question" to report bugs in these pages as you go through, rather than having to remember and post a bug report later

For the upchieve101 quiz - some of the questions weren't covered in the training (or I missed it e.g. what subjects do students want most help with?).

The implicit bias stuff was annoying - I agree with the idea, but there is little evidence it makes any difference to behavior: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-...

Having to implicitly agree with ideas like "being colorblind is racism" (paraphrasing) was almost enough to put me off continuing - and being told that it was a sign of white racism when I'm a brown immigrant was a little weird and suggested some unhelpful assumptions on the part of the material's author(s)

It was nice to help a student, and I think they learned a lot during the session, but I was surprised how weird it felt not having any audio interaction. Everything took much longer than it would have otherwise.

I understand the need for student safety, but not knowing anything about a student, and knowing I would never know how this student would do in future was also demotivating, it felt like taking part in "mechanical turk for tutoring". I'll try a few more times, maybe I'll get used to it. But rich kids somehow manage to stay safe with online tutors with audio and video, seems a shame to give the poor kids a crappy version of the same thing.