Tutor Training at Rollins College

Certified by the College Reading and Learning Association through the Master Level (III)

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Intensive Peer Tutor Training, TPJ 107

a.k.a. "crash training" 

As a new tutor, you enroll in a one-credit (credit/no-credit) course called TPJ107, Intensive Peer Tutor Training. The ten or so contact hours, all finished by the time tutoring starts for the semester, prepare you to start tutoring at the beginning of the semester and approach your sessions with your student clients' needs in mind. 

As a new tutor, you are required to reflect on your tutoring in our blog, tutoringattjs.wordpress.com; it is our online support group.  Your last journal is a thorough self-assessment to help you reflect on your professional growth as a tutor. 

TPJ 107 (crash training, new tutors only) syllabus spring 2009

Peer Tutor Training, TPJ 110

a.k.a. "TJ's 24" 

All tutors currently working at TJ's can enroll in the one-credit (credit/no-credit) tutor training course, TPJ110, Peer Tutor Training.  During the semester, we meet four or five times with all tutors, perhaps once or twice in separate meetings (for writing-intensive, quantitative or foreign language courses) and go on "field trips" to departments for meetings with one or more professors.  This can be taken more than once, for tutors wanting elective credit.  All new tutors must take this course.

For credit in this course, you have a lot of freedom.  You need to show over the semester how much time you've spent time in any of these areas.  We call this TJ's 24.  See the syllabus for details and a sample blue biweekly.

• Talking:  f2f (face-to-face) or virtually (on email, in our blog) with all of us and your profs
• Observing:  your tutoring and writing consulting colleagues in their sessions
• Preparing:  for tutoring—reviewing, checking prof’s Bb sites, etc.
• Working on Projects: the one or two you might decide to spend time on during the semester.

TPJ 110 syllabus spring 2009