Tutor training is mandated by state code. Finding and Selecting Tutors Towards the end of each term, the tutoring program asks instructors to recommend qualified students from their classes. We will select tutors for the next semester before it starts so they are ready to help students at the beginning of term and can train early in the semester. The Instructor-Tutor Relationship Tutors benefit from instructor support and we encourage you be accessible to them, give them a copy of your current syllabus, and update them on any changes in course content or textbooks since they took your course. Tutors can also provide you with helpful information about the types of difficulties students are experiencing in a given course that semester.
Tutors are also the program's best ambassadors.
Thus, they are also directed to ask you if they may visit your classes early in the semester to introduce themselves to students and explain briefly how to use tutorial services. Hearing about the program from a peer is a powerful way to lower barriers of fear and ignorance that often make students reluctant to ask for help. Please welcome tutors into your classrooms briefly to supplement announcements we will have asked you to make early each semester telling students about the tutoring program. While tutors are available for about 130 courses in the credit curriculum, there will be some courses for which there are no tutors in a given semester. There are several possible reasons for this.