ALYSSA K.

In my fall semester of 2017 I began my experience as a Peer tutor at the Learning Assistance Center at the University of Cincinnati. It was during my first training experience where I began to change my definition of what a tutor’s role is in the learning process. Tutors are meant to facilitate the learning process and provide their tutees the skills they will need to be able to learn on their own, in any course. Rebecca Elliot, the head of the peer tutoring program liked to use the quote: “You are working toward your own obsolescence,” to describe the role of the tutor. Learning this was incredibly powerful to me. I began to realize that I would have to guide my tutee to the right answer instead of just giving them the answers, which would not let them learn for themselves. Being someone who loves to learn I have enjoyed being a peer tutor very much. With every session I have a new opportunity to guide tutees through the learning process, and provide them the support they need in order to grow. My favorite part of tutoring is when I get to see tutees come to an answer on their own and have an “ah-ha” moment – it is incredibly fulfilling to me. I know being a peer tutor has helped improve my development as a person, as the training and work that I have put into this experience will help me to learn and teach those all around me in my life.

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I have included the summary I created in order to show some techniques I use to tutor a course. We used this summary to give a presentation at the spring semester peer tutor training. 

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