Tutorial Trainings and Communication

Learning Assistance Programs and Disability Support Services (LAP/DSS) and Student Support Services (SSS).

MO-KAN-NE 31st Annual Professional Conference

Professional Roundtable April, 2009

Valdis Zalite Academic Support Centers

Southeast Missouri State University (573) 651-2273

vzalite@semo.edu

CURRENT SET-UP AT SOUTHEAST THROUGH LAP/DSS

Individual/Small Group Tutorial Sessions

1 Open Lab (focusing predominately on upper and lower level math courses)

1 Open Lab providing Industrial Engineering and Technology assistance

AskOnline – online tutoring for Physics, Math, Spanish and Anatomy and Physiology

Scheduled Study Sessions (similar to SI) for Chemistry and Anatomy and Physiology courses

BEFORE THEY MEET WITH YOUR TUTOR

Share pertinent information with your tutees ◦What tutoring is and what it is not◦Decide what form of assistance best fits their

need ◦Identify strengths and weaknesses of the

course to determine who would best fit their need (matched with availability)

COMMUNICATION

Intentional Communication – both verbally and through e-mail or the 5th e-mail will be deleted prior to being read

Offer opportunities to your tutors that would benefit them

Straight-forward and concise sharing – limit the ambiguity

Share your tutors successes with all tutors (with permission from the tutor of coarse)

Promote Teamwork

TRAININGS

Send an Agenda Ask your strong tutors to present Offer insightful exercises

◦Shoelace Tying◦Role Playing◦Question and Answer◦Venting Time ◦Circular Sharing

TRAININGS Continued

Share feedback from tutees Share your up-to-date successesShare assessment results Address your struggles with Tutors to the

group (like the student in the classroom, many of them have similar issues)

SUPERVISION

Questions distributed prior to meeting such as; ◦What have you learned through your

experience? ◦Has this experience benefited you?◦How are you most effective as a tutor?◦What can you do to improve?◦How can you use these experiences in your

future?

SUPERVISION Continued

Share helpful opportunities with your tutors

Encourage updating their resume Listen, focus and address Discuss their coursework and grades

ASSESSMENT

Survey Monkey What the results have shown and how to

use the results in the future

Connect these results to Supervision, Trainings and Communication with your tutors

HELPFUL LINKS

http://faculty.deanza.fhda.edu/alvesdelimadiana/stories/storyReader$134

http://www.octc.kctcs.edu/tutortraining/tutortech.html

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~smcdanie/ACA_3000F/TutorTrainingHandbook.htm

Thank You for Coming!!