Curricula

Objectives

The student
- is able to act as a peer tutor for the exchange students
- is able to help new students build social networks and adjust to the study community
- understands the guidance needs of international exchange students
- is able to recognize the initial difficulties that a newcomer faces in a new environment and possesses tools for solving the problems.

Content

The study module divides into three parts:
– Trainings which introduce the basic tasks of a tutor, the Jamk's student guidance system, the guidance need of the exchange students, acknowledging the cultural differences and the current issues of students. Team meetings handle with the current issues of tutoring and the study module.
– Peer tutoring for exchange students in practice. The main tasks of an international tutor are helping the exchange students with the practicalities before their arrival, introducing them to Jyväskylä area and the Finnish culture and help them to adjust to the studying in JAMK. Tutors task is also to recruit the new tutors.
– Optional tutoring, each tutor gets to spend hours to the kind of tutoring that they find interesting. It can be marketing tutoring, helping with free time activities organized by the Student Union or other separately agreed projects.

Learning materials and recommended literature

Course material will be presented at the lectures and put to Optima workspace.

Student workload

- Training, lectures and meetings 39 h
- Peer tutoring 69 h
- Optional tutoring 27 h
Total of 135 hours.

Further information for students

Enrollment to this study module cannot be made via Peppi. A recruitment will be organized in January for the study module and all the applicants will be interviewed. Students chose to this study module will be lifted to Peppi separately. More information about the recruitment www.jamko.fi.

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, pass/failed

The student knows how to utilize information and skills defined in the learning competences when acting as peer supporter. Student attends the lectures and completes the hours mentioned in the section “Student Workload in Hours”. The reporting is done according to Jamk’s reporting instructions as well as the instructions given at the lectures.

The study module is graded as Pass/Fail, marked as “S (Pass)” and “0 (Fail)”.
If the student does not meet the minimum criteria set for the course, the grade is 0 (Fail).

Prerequisites

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