How To Get The Most Out of Your Tutoring Experience:
Do your homework ahead of time.
Come to the Center with questions about things you don't understand.
Communicate with your professor when you need extra help.
What to Expect From a Q Lit. Center Meeting
You may drop in at the Center to get help with one assignment, or you may come in regularly to work with a particular tutor. Be sure to arrive with specific questions. Don't expect the tutor to sit with you while you do your homework. Do your homework ahead of time, so you can ask for help with what you don't understand.
The tutors do not give the answers to homework problems but explain what you don't understand, use examples to work on the process of finding an answer, and show how the problems fit into your everyday life. At the end of your session, you and the tutor summarize what you have worked on, going over anything you don't understand.
You may find other students from your class seeking help from the same tutor. When that is the case, the tutor may work with the whole group at once or with individual students while the rest work together.
Sometimes answers won't come easily. Even after working out the problems and consulting with other tutors, your tutor may not be able to help you. On the rare occasion that this happens, you and the tutor should work out a plan for finding out how to solve the problem. Perhaps you and the tutor need more information. Maybe something is missing from the assignment or from the equation. Get the missing information right away from the professor or from another student. Check back with the tutor to let her or him know what you find out, so the tutor can help other students who may have the same questions.
The Center provides an acknowledgment form for you to attach to your homework or other assignment, to explain to your instructor the help you have received.
We ask that you sign in when you use the services of the Center, giving your name, class year, course, and the purpose of your visit. Sometime during the semester we will ask you to respond to a questionnaire about our services and the help you receive.
