The Tutor Training Seminar of CTLD
The Tutor Training Seminar of CTLD"Individual Consultation for Foundational Course”
service sponsored by the Learning Support Division of Center for Teaching and Learning Development (CTLD) has offered peer tutor support in ten courses since 2007. They include Economics, Statistics, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry, Biology, Accounting, Organic Chemistry, and Engineering Mathematics. To date, over two thousand students per year have received the individual consultation service and the averaged satisfactory rate of tutors’ performance was 4.6 in terms of a 5-point Likert scale. The Learning Support Division held a training seminar in the evening of March 4 to increase peer tutors’ efficacy in assisting undergraduate students overcome their academic difficulties and to help them understand relevant administrative procedures for offering their tutoring in CTLD. All peer tutors of the spring semester participated in this event, including 27 renewed and 9 new tutors.
The training seminar was opened up by Dr. Jiang Yi-Huah’s remark, the director of CTLD. He hoped the peer tutors provided their individual consultation with patience and client-centered attitudes to help undergraduate students maximize their learning outcomes. Dr. Ding Stone, the associate director of CTLD, demonstrated how to increase tutored students’ self-inquiry and motivation toward solving their learning problems by an interactive-learning approach. Two senior tutors also shared briefly what they had learned from their tutoring experiences. In addition, six professors from several Departments offering these foundational courses were invited to introduce teaching tips of various subjects with the seminar participants in a small-group format. This seminar was ended fruitfully after the final panel discussion.