Tutoring @ TJ’s

Recruiting is starting…and besides me and your professors asking students to tutor, you all can talk it up with your classmates. You guys know what being up here really involves. Be thinking of which of your fellow students would be good up here. Who would appreciate more opportunities to learn? …more insight into both the course content and the learning process that you all have developed while working at TJ’s?

These tutoring projects aren’t bad. They may take up time, but there are enough positive aspects for them to be worth it in the end. First of all, the end results of these projects reflect well upon TJs as an organization, as well as our roles as tutors; it’s good for Rollins as a whole. Second, here you go: you’ve got the opportunity to put some of the skills which your education has facilitated you with (organizational, representative, formatting, tutoring, etc.) to the test. Make an improvement to this organization which reflects positively on your role as tutor. Last, it’s group work–get to know your group members, collaborate, and make some friends/a functioning team. (more…)

Cancelled due to inclement weather… Sigh.

But it got us (we admin types for all these groups) to get our ecruiting materials ready. Ours are up in TJ’s, in front of TJ’s front desk. Encourage students who ask you about your job to take the next step. There’s also a brochure with info about all 13 peer education programs. (more…)

We are producing a handout with a blurb about each program, and that’s what I’d like your input on… Here’s a draft. What else should we include??? It has to stay short, always hard for moi. CHANGES IN BOLD.
Peer educators at TJ’s: Tutors are specialists who work within their majors or minors with courses they’ve taken and the professors they know teaching them. Tutors help students adjust reflect on their own and others’ learning styles and strategies to better help students adjust to course demands–tests, homework, papers, etc. Writing consultants are generalists, expert readers who talk with writers across the curriculum at any stage of the writing process, from brainstorming a topic to structuring an argument to editing a final draft. Both groups earn academic credit for training courses and pay for time spent helping students. Both groups offer six hours of appointments a week, in a very flexible schedule. Some tutors are busier than others; writing consultants are often booked solid from after mid-terms on.