Peer Tutoring
Your peer tutor is an experienced student who has already succeeded in your class and can help you to understand assignments, criteria, and even your instructor! Individualized ongoing assistance is arranged based on instructor or advisor referral.
Peer Tutoring can be a one-time meeting OR weekly tutoring sessions that help you to review course content or to work on assignments.
I think I may need ongoing help this semester in my class. What do I do?
Weekly/ongoing peer tutoring relationships are reserved for those students with accommodations and other exceptional situations, including for those courses not supported by study groups or resource centers. Once a session has been requested and established you are expected to attend each session that has been arranged. Your instructor or advisor will need to set up an ongoing relationship.
I need a Peer Tutor for a one-time meeting. How can I make a request?
If you are a student looking for a one-time Peer Tutoring session, you can log into TutorTrac to search for and make your own request. For more information on TutorTrac and how to use it, click here.
How late in the semester can a Peer Tutoring request be made?
Please make Peer Tutoring requests as early as possible. Requests made during the final weeks of the semester may not be fulfilled.
What if I am sick or I can’t make a scheduled session?
- If you are sick or cannot make a session, contact the Academic Assistant assigned to you to cancel that day’s session.
What happens if I miss a session or two without notifying the Peer Tutor?
- You may miss one session with a peer tutor without losing your remaining sessions. After the second “No call/ No show” any remaining sessions will be canceled. Your tutor may be reassigned to another student.
- Please be aware that finding a new tutor will take time: it is best to attend or to notify the academic assistant so you can avoid interruptions in your services.
Professional Tutoring
Professional Tutoring is a one-on-one relationship with an Alverno instructor who helps students build foundational skills or develop key academic skills that affect multiple classes. For example, students might be referred by their course instructor or advisor to receive extended professional tutoring to help with
- foundational writing and research skills that go beyond a single class
- specific disciplinary writing styles that relate to a major
- strategies for working with your multilingual background
- foundational math skills that go beyond a single class
- specific math skills that relate to a major
- strategies for working with a learning disability
How can I get a professional tutor?
Professional Tutoring is only available under special circumstances and by instructor, advisor, or Student Accessibility Coordinator request. Your instructor is the best judge of who may need this level of assistance.
