Student Tutoring (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

Student
- is able to act as a peer tutor for the new students of UAS during their studies
- can support new students in creating social networks and adjusting to the community of UAS
- is able to create group dynamics
- can recognize life-management problems, learning difficulties, and react to them
- can identify initial problems caused by a new environment and have the tools needed to solve them

Content

The study module divides into four parts:
- Training which introduce the basic tasks of a tutor, the Jamk's guidance system and the guidance need of the degree students and the current issues of students.
- Student-led small group guidance. The student is offered a chance to plan and carry out small group meetings for one’s own degree program's first year students.
- Peer tutoring in practice. The main tasks of a peer tutor are helping the new students during the entrance examinations and orientation week as well as throughout the new students first year. Tutors task is also to recruit the new tutors.
- Optional tutoring. Student gets to modify tutoring 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.

Materials

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

Completion alternatives

Participating into the study modules sections is a prerequisite to complete the study module:
- Participating into the training and pre-assignments (30%)
- Tutoring and tasks of representing (70%)

Student workload

- Training, lectures and meetings 39 h
- Small group guiding 12 h
- Peer tutoring 57 h
- Optional tutoring 27 h
- Total of 135 hours.

Assessment criteria, approved/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).

Qualifications

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Further information

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.