Be a Center for Teaching and Learning Peer Tutor

See the General Timeline for the recruitment process as it ran for 2012-13 recruitment.

Appointment Tutors

Appointment tutors meet with students one-on-one in mutually agreed-upon locations anywhere on campus. 

Purpose: Support students in the learning process as part of a teaching team that includes faculty, TAs and CTL.

Job Basics: Meet one-on-one with students who have scheduled tutoring appointments in the course(s) you will be tutoring.

What You'll Do

• Get trained to be a tutor
  In Autumn, all new appointment tutors will have about a day and a half of training in the first weekend of the quarter.  Also, they must enroll in and attend Peer Tutor Training (CTL 120). Tutors can receive 1 unit for this course. Tutoring commences in Autumn Quarter.
• Provide one-on-one tutoring
  Meet with students one-on-one in mutually agreed-upon locations anywhere on campus. Appointment tutors must be available for at least three (3) hours each week and can provide up to ten (10) hours of tutoring per week. 

  Tutoring is available from the first Sunday of the quarter until the last day of classes. By the second week of the quarter, tutors are expected to set a schedule for the entire quarter with at least three hours of tutoring availability per week, though not all hours may be booked. Tutors may work as many as 10 hours per week and are responsible for the tutoring appointments that they schedule. They should be prompt to their appointments and meet with students in a mutually agreed-upon location. To support the tutoring program both logistically and methodologically, tutors are required to attend quarterly meetings. Tutors are also asked to assist in the recruitment, interviewing, and training of new tutors.

• Tutor courses in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Human Biology, Math, Physics, Psychology, and Statistics.  To tutor foreign languages, please see Language Tutors below.

What You'll Get

• Starting pay for appointment tutors in 2012-13 will be $13.50 per hour.

When You'll Tutor

• Tutors selected in Winter/Spring will begin tutoring in the following Autumn.
• Tutoring is available the first Sunday after classes begin through the last day of classes each quarter.

Application Basics (what we need from you):

• Check out the timeline for the recruitment process: General Timeline (PDF)
• No matter how many subjects you hope to tutor, you only need to complete one application. Within the application, you will select all the courses that you would like to tutor.
• A letter of recommendation from a professor or graduate TA at Stanford about your communication skills, academic abilities, intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm, experience helping others, responsibility, and interpersonal skills.  
• Strong academics
• Well-written essays
• Strong commitment to helping peers learn
• Strong interpersonal skills

Questions?

 Attend one of our Information Sessions in February, or contact  tutoringhelp@stanford.edu.

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Language Tutors

Language tutors are a special kind of appointment tutor.  They tutor similarly to tutors in other subjects, as described above, in the same locations, with the same training, etc., but with two main differences:

• Language tutoring appointments consist primarily of oral conversation practice.
• In the application process, if you pass the interview stage, you must also go through a language proficiency evaluation in the language(s) you wish to tutor.  The evaluations are run by the Language Center; the CTL Office helps schedule them.

Application Basics (what we need from you): 
See the requirements for Appointment Tutor, above.

Questions?

 Attend one of our Information Sessions in February, or contact  tutoringhelp@stanford.edu.

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Resident Tutors

Resident Tutors (RTs) live in the dorms and are part of dorm staff, holding drop-in tutoring sessions.

Purpose: Support students in the learning process as part of a teaching team that includes faculty, teaching assistants (TAs) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

Job Basics: Resident Tutors hold six (6) hours of drop-in tutoring each week (Sunday-Thursday nights). Additional staff responsibilities vary depending on the dorm in which you are placed. PLEASE NOTE: You can only hold one residential staff position at a time.

What You'll Do

• Get trained to be a tutor
  All new Resident Tutors attend Tutor College, which takes place  in the week before New Student Orientation, complementing residential staff training sessions.  Also, new RTs must enroll in and attend Peer Tutor Training (CTL 120). Tutors can receive 1 unit for this course. Then tutoring commences in the Autumn Quarter. (Please note that Sophomore College and other September programs conflict with our training. RT candidates will need to decide in late April whether to commit to RT training or to attend one of these programs.) 
  

  Four hours of additional “on-the-job” training commence once the quarter begins.

• Live in a dorm and provide drop-in office hours
  

  While all Resident Tutors hold drop-in tutoring hours for at least 6 hours a week (Sunday through Thursday nights), the staff role of the Resident Tutor varies from dorm to dorm. Some Resident Tutors are fully-involved members of residential staff team; some resident tutors play little or no role in dorm activities. For more information about specific staff roles, please contact the Resident Fellow for that dorm.  To support the tutoring program both logistically and methodologically, tutors are required to attend quarterly meetings. Tutors are also asked to assist in the recruitment, interviewing, and training of new tutors.

• Tutor introductory courses
  

  Resident Tutors are recruited to tutor introductory courses in one or more (multiple subjects are preferred) of the following subjects:  Chemistry, Economics, Math, and Physics.

What You'll Get

• The stipend for residential tutors will be $4500 per year in 2012-13.
• Most placements have a single room!

When You'll Tutor

• Tutors selected in Winter/Spring will begin tutoring in the following Autumn.
• Tutoring is available the first Sunday after classes begin through the last day of classes each quarter.

Application Basics (what we need from you):

• Check out the timeline for the recruitment process:  General Timeline (PDF)
• To be a Resident Tutor, you must go through the Appointment Tutor application process above, plus additional steps.
• Two letters of recommendation.  One must be from a professor or graduate TA at Stanford about your communication skills, academic abilities, intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm, experience helping others, responsibility, and interpersonal skills. The second letter of recommendation should be from a Resident Fellow in a dorm where you've lived. This letter should address your potential as a dorm staff person.  
• Strong academics
• Well-written essays
• Strong commitment to helping peers learn
• Strong interpersonal skills
• If you are given an interview in CTL and proceed to the next stage, you'll go through an interview process with Resident Fellows in the freshman dorms

Questions?

• Attend ResCon in January, where RT applicants meet RFs
• Attend one of our Information Sessions in February
• Contact tutoringhelp@stanford.edu

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