Undergraduate Peer Tutor
Job Summary:
AAC Tutoring Services is a free service to all K-State students taking courses at K-State. Peer tutors help facilitate the learning process outside of a formal classroom structure and tutoring focuses on the success of the learning process as a whole. They are a vital part to many K-State students’ academic careers as they assist students to succeed academically. Peer tutors are needed for a variety of courses and one tutor may hold several tutoring sessions a week in a variety of courses.
Learn more about tutoring at https://www.k-state.edu/tutoring
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist students with course content and academic strategies.
- Facilitate the learning process instead of providing direct answers.
- Be a productive study partner.
- Consult on how students can customize study tools and techniques to fit their individualized preferences.
- Make referrals to other student success resources such as Academic Coaching.
- Help students prepare for tests and exams
Qualifications:
- Must be a Kansas State University student enrolled in at least 6 hours
- Must maintain a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Must have received a “B” or better at K-State in the courses you wish to tutor and knowledgeable about course tutored
- Exhibit responsibility, positive attitude, confidence, flexibility, strong energy levels, and excellent communication skills.
- Enthusiastic about building academic skills and helping others.
- Understanding of students with different needs, interests, and abilities
Subject Areas Needed:
We hired tutors in a variety of subject areas. High need subject areas include but are not limited to:
- Accounting
- Agribusiness
- Agricultural Economics
- Animal Sciences
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Electrical Engineering
- Finance
- Geology
- Geography
- Kinesiology
- Math
- Management
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics
- Statistics
Recommendation Form Requirement:
To be eligible for this position, you must have a completed recommendation form from a content expert for each subject area (subject area examples: Math, Biology, Accounting, Chemistry, Economics, Music, etc.) that you intend to tutor. A content area expert can be a former high school teacher, university professor, academic advisor, department chair, university supervisor, etc.-- someone who can speak to your content expertise and ability to communicate in the content area. You must have a content area recommendation from reach subject area that you intend to tutor. For example, if you want to tutor math and biology courses you just a recommendation form on file for math and biology.
Please email the following form to your intended recommender- https://kstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bO9OGQCeGGcvXeu