Tutoring Guidelines
Many
departments on campus provide tutor assistance and extra lab sessions
for help with the classes they offer. Please view the Willamette
University Learning Enhancement Web Site at http://www.willamette.edu/cla/ler/. Also, most professors are willing to meet individually with students.
If these services have been used and students still need additional
help, they may apply for tutoring through the CLA Dean’s Office. The
Tutorial Assistance provided through the Dean’s Office is available
to all undergraduate students at Willamette University.
Tutors
are provided based upon availability of qualified students. When
qualified students are unavailable, no tutoring may be provided.
Our
tutoring is provided to help with content assistance related to the
classroom material.
Normally,
students are allowed a maximum of two hours tutoring per week, per
class.
Additional hours are considered on an individual basis. Students
with writing weaknesses are encouraged to seek assistance in the Writing
Center. Students seeking help with foreign language classes should
first contact the appropriate language department.
The
CLA Dean’s Office Tutorial Assistance Program provides tutoring
only when the department does not provide individual assistance for
the class/subject being taught.
The
CLA Dean’s Office finds qualified tutors in the following ways:
When a request comes in, our tutor coordinator contacts the professor
of the class for recommendations.
Obligations of
a Student being Tutored
1. Students
must request tutoring services through the CLA Dean’s Office.
2. Students
receiving tutoring should bring lecture notes, assignments, textbooks
and any necessary tools to the tutoring session. If the homework
is turned in for a grade, tutors are to provide similar problems
as examples but should not assist in solving the homework problems.
3. Students
receiving tutoring should utilize tutoring time to review assignments,
clarify concepts that are confusing, coordinate when assignments
are due and develop timelines to complete objectives.
4. When
possible, students should provide 24-hour notice of cancellation
of a tutoring appointment. Call or email the tutor if
you will be late.
5. If
a student misses and fails to cancel three sessions, the service
will be cancelled. The student must meet with the Associate
Dean to discuss renewal of services.
Tutor Obligations
1. Tutors
must be qualified to tutor courses they are applying for. This
is determined by the grade earned in the class and professor’s
recommendation. Preference is given to tutors who are juniors
or seniors and majoring in the area of study.
2. The
tutor will be given the email address of the student to be tutored
and will be instructed to contact them. If the tutor is unable
to make contact, he or she is to notify the tutor coordinator.
3. Tutors
must be punctual at sessions and should wait for a period of 15 minutes
for the tutee to show up.
4. Tutors
will provide content assistance that focuses on the learning process
and is related to the classroom material. This will include
strategies that will assist the student in improving skills and becoming
independent. The tutor will contact the CLA Dean’s Office
to explore additional ways of assisting the student if there is difficulty
with tutoring the student.
5. The
tutor will notify the tutor coordinator immediately if he or she
feels the material is beyond his/her level of expertise.
6. Tutors
will be paid for a maximum of 2 hours per tutee per week. The
CLA Dean’s Office may limit the number of students a tutor
has, usually to no more than 3 in any pay period. Exceptions
can be made for special circumstances.
7. Generally,
the tutor will work one-on-one with a student. Exceptions can
be made with prior permission from the Dean’s Office where
two students in the same course can be tutored at the same time. (When
tutoring two students at the same time the tutor may only charge
the dept. at the regular hourly, but he or she can work up to four
hours per week with the two tutees together.)
8. Tutors
may not solicit their own students. The CLA Dean’s Office
will accept tutor requests and decide whom the most qualified tutor
is to pair them with.
9. Timesheets
are due electronically on the 14th of each month.
