Peer Tutoring Policies are written to protect both tutors and tutees. Please carefully review the policies below prior to committing to become a peer tutor/accepting peer tutor assistance. Tutors need a professor's recommendation or a grade of A or B in a course in order to tutor in that subject. Before a student can be paid to tutor for LAP, he/she will need to bring a valid license and social security card to one of two LAP offices (Craig 108C & graduate assistant's office located across the hallway) during office hours and complete federal and state tax paperwork. LAP cannot pay tutors for working with students who have not made official LAP Peer Tutor Requests. In order to be hired as a LAP tutor, students will be required to meet with either the Director or Graduate Assistant, completing appropriate paperwork, receiving training, and signing a contract (below). 1. Tutors will be paid for up to 2 hours per week per tutee. Any time beyond two hours a week, not approved by the director, will go unpaid. Tutors working with multiple tutees are allotted two hours for each tutee per week. • Establishing study plans / goals for tutoring sessions • Identifying areas of difficulty • Problem Solving questions related to the subject • Discuss study strategies 3. Tutors should display a passion and natural ability for subjects they are teaching. For this reason, students requesting to become LAP tutors will need to provide the name of a faculty member who can verify their high performance (A or B) in a course they'd like to tutor. If a student does not show up for an appointment with a tutor and fails to notify the tutor within 48 hours it will be considered a no show. Tutors will be paid for only one hour that was scheduled and resulted in a no show. Tutors should immediately notify LAP's graduate assistant of the no show, not waiting more than a week. Any subsequent no shows will result in a tutor no longer being responsible for upholding a peer tutoring commitment. LAP will not pay for additional no show hours beyond the first occurence. After a student makes an appointment, the student is expected to meet with the tutor. If the tutee cancels the appointment, it will be recorded as a cancellation. Tutors should notify the director or graduate assistant if this happens so that a typed email warning can be sent notifying the tutee. Any additional cancellations will result in the tutor no longer being responsible for upholding the peer tutoring commitment. If the tutor meets with more than one individual during the same tutoring hour(s) it is considered group tutoring. Tutors are paid on an hourly wage regardless of the number of tutees present. For this reason, LAP advises meeting with tutees individually. It is the tutee’s responsibility to contact the tutor. Tutors should email the LAP Graduate Assistant if the tutee has not contacted you within a week. GA email: lap@gardner-webb.edu Tutors should turn in time sheets on time based on the payroll schedule. If for some reason a tutor cannot turn in a time sheet one week please notify lap at lap@gardner-webb.edu. It is the tutor's responsibility to turn in time sheets in order to be processed by payroll. Timesheets held from one semester to another and submitted grossly late may not be accepted if a payroll period prohibits such a crossover. For this reason, it is critical that during exam week, all outstanding timesheets from that semester be submitted outside the director's door, Craig 108C. Timesheets should include a Bi-Weekly Payroll Form + a Peer Tutoring Timelog. Timesheets are submitted every two weeks, according to each semester's timeline. Signed timesheets should be placed outside the director's door (Craig 108C) by 9am for each deadline. Any timesheets submitted late will be held until the following deadline. In order to submit Bi-weekly forms to Payroll, LAP requires signatures of each tutor and tutee on the Peer Tutoring Timelog which is attached. Without a timelog (LAP form requiring tutor and tutee signatures), timesheets will not be submitted to payroll. Timesheets will be held until a proper timelog is submitted to the LAP Director. Download a LAP Bi-weekly Timesheet Download a Spring 2010 Payroll Schedule Download a LAP Peer Tutoring Timelog Download a Peer Tutoring Contract Questions? Please do not hesitate to contact the Graduate Assistant for LAP at lap@gardner-webb.edu or (704) 406-4390 or Jennifer Buckner, Director at jbuckner@gardner-webb.edu or (704) 406-4394.Why Have Policies?
Guidelines for Becoming a Tutor
Guidelines for Tutoring Sessions
2. Tutoring sessions consist of:
Monthly Evaluations
Every month a tutor and the tutee will need to complete an onlin survey, evaluating one another and LAP Peer Tutoring. On those days, tutoring sessions should be finished five minutes prior to your conclusion to allow the tutee and yourself time to fill out the evaluation online. Evaluations are located on the LAP website under Academic Services > Learning Assistance Program> Peer Tutoring Evaluations. Once there, choose the appropriate evaluation to complete.No Show Policy
Cancellation Policy
Group Tutoring Policy
Initial Contact Policy
LAP will contact the tutee to find out if the individual still needs a tutor. Please notify us if the tutor and you have not met within another week. After two weeks have passed and no contact has been made, LAP will remove the tutee.Late Time Sheet Policy
Payroll
Peer Tutoring Forms
Please note, peer tutors will not be assigned after Fri, April 30th due to the time it takes to locate and pair a tutor with a student requesting help. We encourage you to talk with your professor and work in study groups to prepare for exams.