Peer Tutor Job Description

Job description:  Meet regularly with students either individually or in small groups to assist them in understanding course concepts. Share strategies for learning and studying to help students become more successful in learning independently.

Job responsibilities: 

• Maintain and submit weekly tutor logs
• Complete and turn in monthly timecard on date due
• Prepare a short talk regarding your services and present to applicable classes
• Attend and complete all required tutor trainings to build skills in assisting students
• Attend mid-semester tutor meeting
• Participate in observation/evaluation process
• Meet with faculty in your subject area as needed
• Staff the LWC reception desk as scheduled
• Assist the LWC in promoting smooth operation of learning environment and services
• Actively assist in keeping the LWC neat and presentable

Qualifications:  Solid knowledge base in target course content (3.0 GPA or better). Evidence of effective interpersonal skills, dependability, and desire to support students in their learning. Previous tutoring experience, formal or informal, is helpful. Tutor must be recommended by instructor/professor in the discipline they will tutor.

Hours:  Assignment of students to tutors is based on demand for services and compatibility of schedules; no specific hours can be guaranteed. Attendance at training sessions is required each semester in order to tutor. Tutors are paid for training and for the time they actually meet with students (unless hired for drop-in tutoring).

Salary:  $8.50 per hour; Hours 2 – 10 per week.

Application process:  Complete tutor application, obtain a faculty recommendation, and be interviewed by the Learning Center Director. Application forms are available in the Learning Center, Old Main 214. (Both work-study and non work-study candidates will be considered.)