Peer tutoring form goes digital
With new online forms to sign
up for peer tutoring, it's now easier
than ever to get a peer tutor to
help you through a tough course or
to become a peer tutor to help a fellow
Fanshawe student.
According to Bonnie MacBean, Peer Tutor Coordinator at Fanshawe's Counselling and Accessibility Services, peer tutoring is "students helping students through the difficult parts of their specific course." Through the program, a student who is struggling within a course works with a student who excels in the same course. "Peer tutoring helps students get a more firm understanding of the course material and it helps them to get through their program when otherwise they may have given up ... (a peer) may interpret things a little bit differently, (which may be) what the student really needs."
"In January, I had 180 students request peer tutoring and 134 peer tutors available," said MacBean, adding that she is always looking for more students to get involved in both sides of the program. "It's been going well … We just hope more students will request a tutor early, not wait until they're really struggling, because it does sometimes take a few days to find a match, and a match can't always be guaranteed, because it is students and we need them to come forward and help."
The new change to the program is putting the sign-up forms online. "What we did in the past was always a paper form," explained MacBean. "(Students) could get it through their Student Success Advisor, they could come to our office and pick it up or it was on the Fanshawe website and they could download and print it and bring it in. Now there's no need to try to get into the office when it's open; they can apply any time."
To access the forms, head to MyFanshawe. Click Academic Resources and select Peer Tutoring from the dropdown menu. "There's a lot of information there for them to read, so it may help answer any of their questions," said MacBean. To sign up for a tutor, access the form in the "Who's eligible for peer tutoring?" box. To become a peer tutor, access the form in the "How do I become a peer tutor?" box.
The form went online in mid- January, and MacBean said she has been working on it since before the Christmas break. "We've been looking at different ways (to do this). Robert (Kitchen, Student Success Leader) had met with Quentin Lang (Manager of Fanshawe's Project Management Office) and they discussed it and found that maybe this would be the easiest way for everyone involved — students and myself." Though Counselling and Accessibility still has the paper form available, MacBean said she hopes the process will be entirely paperless by next term.
For more information about peer tutoring, check it out on MyFanshawe. If you have any questions for MacBean, call her at 519-452-4430 ext. 4959 or send an email to her at bmacbean@fanshawec.ca.
According to Bonnie MacBean, Peer Tutor Coordinator at Fanshawe's Counselling and Accessibility Services, peer tutoring is "students helping students through the difficult parts of their specific course." Through the program, a student who is struggling within a course works with a student who excels in the same course. "Peer tutoring helps students get a more firm understanding of the course material and it helps them to get through their program when otherwise they may have given up ... (a peer) may interpret things a little bit differently, (which may be) what the student really needs."
"In January, I had 180 students request peer tutoring and 134 peer tutors available," said MacBean, adding that she is always looking for more students to get involved in both sides of the program. "It's been going well … We just hope more students will request a tutor early, not wait until they're really struggling, because it does sometimes take a few days to find a match, and a match can't always be guaranteed, because it is students and we need them to come forward and help."
The new change to the program is putting the sign-up forms online. "What we did in the past was always a paper form," explained MacBean. "(Students) could get it through their Student Success Advisor, they could come to our office and pick it up or it was on the Fanshawe website and they could download and print it and bring it in. Now there's no need to try to get into the office when it's open; they can apply any time."
To access the forms, head to MyFanshawe. Click Academic Resources and select Peer Tutoring from the dropdown menu. "There's a lot of information there for them to read, so it may help answer any of their questions," said MacBean. To sign up for a tutor, access the form in the "Who's eligible for peer tutoring?" box. To become a peer tutor, access the form in the "How do I become a peer tutor?" box.
The form went online in mid- January, and MacBean said she has been working on it since before the Christmas break. "We've been looking at different ways (to do this). Robert (Kitchen, Student Success Leader) had met with Quentin Lang (Manager of Fanshawe's Project Management Office) and they discussed it and found that maybe this would be the easiest way for everyone involved — students and myself." Though Counselling and Accessibility still has the paper form available, MacBean said she hopes the process will be entirely paperless by next term.
For more information about peer tutoring, check it out on MyFanshawe. If you have any questions for MacBean, call her at 519-452-4430 ext. 4959 or send an email to her at bmacbean@fanshawec.ca.
