Peer Tutors – Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program FALL 2024
IMPORTANT:
Click APPLY on the Handshake job posting AND fill out the Tutor Enrollment Form to complete your application: https://forms.gle/UFMTMLTwUsabwab46
If you have not completed payroll paperwork at Wesleyan before, upon being hired, you will need to complete payroll forms online and meet with Human Resources to verify your IDs in-person. For more information about the payroll on-boarding process, see the Campus Employment website > “Payroll Information for First-Time Student Employees.”
Position Summary
The Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program seeks to hire Peer Tutors who are dependable, organized, and professional students, who are friendly, patient, and respectful to others, and will maintain the confidentiality of tutees while upholding the standards of academic integrity set by Wesleyan’s Honor Code.
The Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program creates a learning community in which students can support and enrich each other’s academic and intellectual development. This program strives to create a bridge between students who have excelled in their previous coursework and those who are currently enrolled and would like extra assistance. The Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program provides workshops and resources for tutors on how to best serve their peers. The program aims to improve tutors’ communication and teaching skills, which are applied in tutoring sessions, to enhance peer-to-peer support within the academic setting.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide supplementary course-content instruction for students who request additional course support.
- Coordinate times to meet with assigned tutees.
- Meet regularly with assigned tutoring groups up to 2 hours per week/group.
- Participate in offered trainings, and access the resources provided through the Deans’ Peer Tutoring Moodle page.
- New tutors must attend an Orientation Training.
Expectations for Peer Tutors
- Tutor must complete the Tutor Enrollment Form each semester.
- Tutors must review the Tutor Orientation information on Moodle (students will be added to the Deans’ Peer Tutoring Moodle site once enrolled).
- Tutors will maintain the confidentiality of tutees.
- Tutors will submit work hours and comments on Workforce Time by the deadline.
- Tutors are only paid for matches made or approved by the Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program — Tutoring is provided primarily in small groups, for students who have completed a request and been matched with a tutoring group. Tutors can request to meet with a specific group when completing the tutor enrollment form.
- Tutors will NOT make up an answer if they are unsure — Tutors will model effective problem-solving to help a student find an answer using the course materials. Tutors will assist a student in formulating a question (in writing) to bring to the instructor.
- Tutors do not do homework with students — Tutors help students understand the concepts behind problems, and/or the process of solving problems, they do not solve problems directly. Peer tutors may not assist students with work on take-home exams or problem sets.
- During and at the end of the semester, tutors are asked to fill out a Check-In Form regarding students’ progress with tutoring — Tutors must complete this for each student in a timely manner. Tutors are compensated for their time filling out the form.
Desired Skills & Qualifications
- This position is open to students of all class years
- Must have earned an A- or better in the course (or demonstrated equivalent)
- Must have received a faculty recommendation for tutoring the course (only required once per each course)
Department Location
Student Academic Resources, North College, Room 023
Schedule & Availability
- Fall 2024, to be hired each new semester
- Tutors work with assigned tutoring group(s) to schedule in-person or online tutoring sessions. All tutors must be present on the Middletown campus.
- Work schedules are determined each semester, based on student availability
- Students are expected to work a minimum of 2 hours per week per matched group when classes are in session
- Students indicate on the Tutor Enrollment Form how many total hours they are available to work in the current semester for all matches, and are expected to notify the Deans’ Peer Tutoring Program immediately if their availability changes
Job Classification
- $15.69/hr for undergraduate tutors
- $17.69/hr for graduate tutors
Primary Supervisors
- Khai Tran, Academic Support Coordinator
- Crystal Rose Hill-Farrell, Director of Student Academic Resources
Contact
- Khai Tran, Academic Support Coordinator, deans_peer_tutoring@wesleyan.edu
Performance Evaluation
The supervisor and Graduate Intern will provide ongoing guidance and schedule one-on-one meetings for support as needed. Faculty, students, and other staff with whom the tutor works may also provide feedback to the tutor or the supervisor. Feedback will be based on policies and procedures outlined in the Tutoring Moodle.
Application Instructions
Applications will be accepted until December 6, 2024. You’ll receive a hiring update email within 2 weeks after submitting your Tutor Enrollment Form. Hiring is on a rolling basis and contingent on the number and type of tutor requests we receive.
1. Click APPLY through Handshake.
2. Complete the Tutor Enrollment Form for the Fall 2024 semester. Applicants who do not complete this form will not be considered for the position.
- State the course(s) you would like to tutor and the total weekly hours committed to peer tutoring
- Read and agree to the expectations and responsibilities outlined for peer tutors.
3. If you have not completed payroll paperwork at Wesleyan before, upon being hired, you will need to complete payroll forms online and meet with Human Resources to verify your IDs in-person. For more information about the payroll on-boarding process, see the Campus Employment website > “Payroll Information for First-Time Student Employees.”
4. Additional information will be sent via email from deans_peer_tutoring@wesleyan.edu.