Product Review: Super Teacher
An app that’s more effective than a private tutor
Plenty of emerging research today confirms what many parents and teachers have known for the past few years. Of all its second-order effects, one of the most destructive tolls taken by the COVID-19 pandemic has been its devastating impact on national education and learning outcomes. With school closures, class cancellations, staff shortages, and sudden changes to academics, students — especially primary school-aged children — have fallen behind and struggled to catch up. Parents searching for alternatives quickly learn their options are limited: not only are private tutoring and learning centers expensive, they don’t always offer individualized attention or personalized study plans. Similarly, while online tutoring offers greater flexibility, it too comes with steep hourly fees. Clearly, this unmet market need demands a solution which is affordable, dynamic, flexible, safe, responsive, and above all, makes learning engaging.
Enter Super Teacher.
Super Teacher is a new app designed to provide a more effective and affordable alternative to private tutors. Offering unlimited lessons to students aged 3 to 8+, Super Teacher covers a wide range of subjects, including reading, math, art, poetry, science, geography, social-emotional skills, and much more. With the app’s conversational virtual teacher, children are encouraged to speak to and engage with a friendly, kind, and patient instructor, making learning a truly immersive and interactive experience.
The Super Teacher app is personalized and adaptive, adjusting to each student’s performance level through the use of speech transcription and natural language processing. Developed by a team of experienced teachers and technologists, Super Teacher instruction and feedback are 100% written by a human teacher, ensuring accuracy and safety for children. The app is available for free download, with an option to upgrade to premium features and full access to an expanding library of new lessons.
The onboarding process — download, sign-up, and optional (recommended) upgrade — is straightforward. Immediately, you’ll notice how intuitive the interface is, and quickly appreciate the app’s easy-to-use, functional design and layout. The app homepage offers a top banner of New and Featured lessons grouped by grade, followed by a vertical column of courses and collections. Creating and editing a student profile involves a “Grownups only” exercise, matching first and last names of 90s celebrities, akin to a childproof CAPTCHA and litmus test for Millennial nostalgia.
Naming a profile also invites user input for custom phonetic pronunciation, a cool celebration of diversity noticed as soon as the student is addressed after setup. The app teacher is a warm, welcoming avatar, and offers constructive feedback and encouraging praise, even colorful humor through subject-relevant puns! Parents can opt-in for notifications to receive lesson completion emails and record lessons for replay, and submit future content requests.
Right out of the gate, Super Teacher is an excellent alternative to several existing market options. While Khan Academy Kids is free, it is not as interactive nor conversational; while Outschool offers online classes, it’s much more expensive. And while ABCMouse has a lot of content, it’s not conversational and Super Teacher has far better design.
Moreover, Super Teacher helps young learners associate screen time with active learning, incorporates visual learning to retain focus and maintain engagement, and asks responsive, smart questions which adapt to students’ individual progress, digging deeper with further practice in subjects where needed, and moving forward with lessons upon demonstrated competency.
Super Teacher includes additional resources (printable worksheets, exercises, challenges) for $9.99 monthly subscription. Annual subscription lowers cost further at just $4.17 per month, for a 58.3% discount! Super Teacher further gamifies learning through awards and badges which students can unlock and win through continued progress in their personalized curriculum. Compared to the high costs of private tutoring, Super Teacher offers exceptional value and makes instant access to quality education and supplemental instruction available to millions of students immediately.
Don’t let expensive tutoring discourage learning goals. Check out Super Teacher for an affordable, engaging, and dynamic learning experience which adapts to individual student needs. Super Teacher launched on Product Hunt today, Thursday, April 27th, 2023! Take the first step towards providing your child with the educational support they deserve, and empower them with the tools they need to succeed in today’s challenging educational landscape. Download Super Teacher now!
Disclosure: I knew the founder of Super Teacher way back when he was a real teacher… at my high school! I have witnessed his passion for democratizing access to high quality education for 20 years. As a strategic advisor, I share his mission and vision, and I’m excited to help spread the word about Super Teacher!
