For STEM professionals already working in field:
Many STEM content experts (eg, busy scientists & engineers) working in the field would love to share their fundamental STEM knowledge with motivated kids, especially disadvantaged kids, but have neither the time nor teaching proficiency to do so.
EEF invites such content experts to be EEF tutors. EEF’s online platform provides them time-saving convenience, while EEF’s training (as brief or extensive as trainees wish) provides them the pedagogic structures that would guide and expedite their teaching.
EEF’s founder has developed these pedagogic structures, which are flexible step-by-step teaching procedures for STEM tutoring, over his career of professional tutoring:
over 15 years of STEM & MCAT Prep tutoring (both in-person and online)
2 years of STEM teaching experience in NYC public schools.
He thus is also familiar with the educational weaknesses - but also potential strengths - of disadvantaged kids
formal pedagogic training (Master's Degree in Science Teaching [Hunter College])
formal STEM training through high school, college (BA in Pre-Engineering), then post-bacc (took entire undergraduate Biology curriculum while he was a graduate student at Hunter College)
Each student has an initial 1-to-1 in-person session with EEF's founder, who thereby determines whether the student is advanced enough for exclusively online tutoring.
Thanks to a tutoring method based on the gritty student's problem-solving between sessions, only incorrectly-answered problems are reviewed (and concepts are reviewed in this context) during sessions. Such targeted tutoring requires only a few hours of session time per week, though the student must invest more time between sessions.
Of course, tutors will be trained in this method, though they probably already used it informally in their own studies.