Peer Tutors

Faculty advisor: Mrs. Sych, Mrs. Kraseman

Student contacts:

Mission:

The Peer Tutor Program is an organization of students who provide academic help to students in a caring, understanding, and respectful manner.

Goals:

• Improve students’ academic performance

• Increase the visibility of the program

• Make signing up more accessible and convenient

• Encourage students to seek help from tutors

• Encourage teachers to recommend tutors or identify

   students who need tutors

• Recruit tutors

• Involve all leaders in matching students

• Provide feedback to active tutors

• Create a comfortable learning environment for students

Roles and Duties

First and most importantly, it is the responsibility of the peer tutor leaders to be able to pair a tutor with a tutee. This means recognizing what pairing will be beneficial to both people. This may require being a tutor as well for the courses one may specialize in. We have made the job of pairing easier with our spreadsheet, which lays out everything in an organized fashion so it is easy to tell who is teaching whom, in what  subject, and when.

Peer Tutor Leader Tasks

• Promote the visibility of the program
• posters
• lunch announcements
• signup sheets spread throughout campus
• Daily Bulletin + email announcements

• Develop organizational tools for matching tutors + tutees(signup forms, spreadsheets...)

• Communicate with tutors

• Provide feedback to tutors

• Match students with tutors

Desired skills for student leaders:

• Organization
• Ability to work with others
• Patience
• Generosity, will to help others
• Will to succeed; our success comes with students’ successes

There is no hierarchy in the Peer Tutor Leaders program.  Each person in the group shares the responsibility for the work.  Basically, each student in the group is not thought of any higher than another because everyone is doing his or her part to help out the Peer Tutor program

Application process

None for the leaders; however there is a form to become a tutor or a tutee.

Characteristics of a Good Tutor:

• Knowledge of the subject
• Communication skills
• Patience and Understanding
• Organizational Skills
• Dedication to the success of students
• Dependable