Peer Tutors

Academic Peer Tutors (APTs)

  • Study skills experts (notetaking, memorization, test preparation and taking, time and task management, communication skills)
  • Dorm based. Support academic life in dormitories (e.g. offer learning strategies workshops throughout campus, invite faculty to meals, academic resources for first-years and upper-class women)
  • Nominated by faculty, deans, student leaders, APTs, or self-apply
  • Trained by the PLTC before and throughout each semester

    • Department Tutors

  • Specific discipline based - available for most departments
  • Support students' understanding of specific content
  • Three types:
    1. Attached (to a specific course)
    2. Individual (works one-on-one with students, appointment based)
    3. Group (available to all students on a drop-in basis at a specific time and place)
  • Each department is responsible for nominating department tutors. The PLTC facilitates the hiring and administrative process. Departmental faculty liaisons work with the PLTC.
  • Trained by faculty in content.
  • Trained by the PLTC in both pedagogy and process throughout each semester.

    • Public Speaking Tutors

  • Hone students' oral communication skills across disciplines (e.g. oral presentations, Power Point, discussion leaders)
  • Offer workshops on public speaking to classes
  • Attached, assigned, and drop-in
  • Nominated by faculty, public speaking tutor peers, or self-apply
  • Trained by the PLTC throughout each semester

    • Writing Tutors

  • Help students develop strategies for writing across discilpines and hone critical thinking skills (e.g. all levels of course writing, senior thesis, internship essays)
  • Nominated by faculty, especially Writing 125
  • Assigned or attached
  • Trained intensively by Writing program throughout each semester

    • What Peer Tutors Can Do for Faculty Members

  • Public Speaking Tutors attached to a course
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