Tutoring Extra Credit Project

Requirements:

1. Adhere to the Policy of Academic Integrity in Plant Biology.
2. Contact Beth Morgan by e-mail on the web by clicking her name and indicate your interest in the project.
3. This project is designed to encourage the interaction of study pairs of tutors and tutees.
4. A tutor must have earned an A or B on the first exam and have scored at least 2 letter grades above the tutee.
5. The tutor and tutee must participate in a total of at least 2 hours of tutoring spread over two sessions including an assignment between sessions.
6. The tutor and tutee will each write a report describing the subject matter, activities and techniques used, assignments given and completed between sessions, and an explanation of what each learned from the experience (Reports should be equivalent to at least a single, double-spaced, 12 point typed page.)

Suggestions for tutorial techniques and activities: (All techniques and activities should emphasize the ACTIVE participation of the tutee.)

• NOT AN OPTION - Tutor lecturing to tutee
• Tutor asking questions to assess beginning knowledge of tutee.
• Tutee answering subject matter questions of tutor.
• Tutee asking questions and tutor helping tutee answerer her/his own questions.
• Tutee and tutor constructing a diagram, table, or concept map to organize a set of facts, concepts, or ideas.
• Tutee and tutor constructing a new model or working through an existing model to understand a concept or idea.
• Tutee and tutor constructing an analogy to illustrate a concept or idea.
• Tutee and tutor complete agreed upon assignment prior to second session.
• Others?

Suggestions for tutorial outcomes:

• Develop mastery of lecture objectives.
• Answer questions on take-home quiz (Do not turn in identical work).
• Reiterate and master activities from discussion.
• Master reading assignments.
• Answer and explain sample M-C exam questions.
• Others?

Initiating the project:

• Offer your help as a tutor or request help from a tutor in the Tutoring Project forum in Moodle.
  • Contact potential partners by e-mail.
  • Tutoring pairs may form "off line", but please post your intention to work together by e-mail to Beth. One tutor may work with more than one tutee if you wish to earn more credit.
  • One or both participants may request consultation with course staff before, during or after the tutoring sessions.

Participation and reporting:

• Tutors and tutees arrange meeting times and places
• Tutors and tutees write individual reports.
• Reports are turned in as an attachment to an e-mail to Beth.
  
• Reports should include:
  • tutoring schedule and amount of time of meetings
  • subject matter discussed
  • tutoring techniques and activities used
  • assignments given and completed between sessions
  • a dialog describing what each participant learned from the experience (at least one page).

Credit:

• Tutors and tutees may each earn up to 1% for each reported pair of tutoring sessions adding up to at least 2 hours of tutoring.
• The project may be repeated for additional extra credit.
• Tutors may work with more than one tutee and earn more credit. Separate reports are required for each tutee with whom you work.

Maximum extra credit is 6%.