TUTEE GUIDELINES
Please read the tutee guidelines carefully. It is important that you understand these guidelines and feel comfortable with them. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Academic Support Center.
Remember that tutors are assigned to help you with specific academic subjects, Math, German, Chemistry, etc. Many students are assigned a study skills and time-management session with an Academic Assistant before they are assigned a tutor. Some students will find working with an Academic Assistant to be sufficient.
I. Individual Responsibilities as a Tutee
A. Attend all classes and prepare sufficiently. (2-3 hours of out-of-class study for every hour in class is considered an average at St. Olaf.)
B. Work through all problems or assignments to the best of your ability before meeting with your tutor.
C. Mark the sections you do not understand and prepare specific questions for the tutor. This will help you make the most of your tutoring sessions.
II. Interaction with Tutor
A. Meet with your tutor 3 hours per week. (These meetings are usually scheduled in 1hour blocks.)
B. In most cases the tutee meets individually with the tutor.
C. Discuss your goals, both for the term and for each tutoring session, with your tutor.
D. Share class notes and tests with your tutor.
E. Think of your tutor as a resource person. Be open to his/her suggestions regarding your study of and approach to the course.
F. Consider writing out a quiz or a test for yourself. Take your test; then bring it to the tutor for discussion. Discuss the possibility of the tutor writing a test for you. ASK ACADEMIC SUPPORT CENTER STAFF FOR MORE SUGGESTIONS.
G. Regular sessions with your tutor will add to your opportunity for success. We ask that you and the tutor agree not to cancel sessions unless it is a real emergency.
H. A successful tutoring experience requires a sincere commitment from you. If you do not prepare for tutoring sessions or attend scheduled sessions, your tutoring privileges will be withdrawn.
I. If you are working with your tutor during the last part of the term, please note that the last day of classes is the last day of tutoring.
III. Academic Department Aids to be Used
A. Consult regularly with your professor.
B. Attend help sessions/ review sessions/ language labs.
C. Check with the department, libraries, language lab and the ASC for other resources (old tests, other texts, computer resources, etc.).
IV. Interaction with the ASC
A. Every Friday, you are required to complete and submit a weekly tutee log.
B. We want to know how it is going with you. If you are having any difficulty or discomfort with the tutoring situation, please let us know immediately by: e-mailing asc@stolaf.edu, or by stopping in at the ASC office (The Modular Village); by calling 507-786-3288; or by putting a note in our P.O. Box 2.
C. Attend scheduled conferences with ASC staff.
D. Contact our office if more study skills/time management help is needed.
E. Please notify ASC staff if you and your tutor agree to stop meeting. This is very important! Your tutor has a dismissal form that you will both sign and return to us. We also need to know of the tutor's status as other students may be waiting for his/her help.
We want very much for this tutoring experience to work for you and wish you well!
