EduTech Tutoring +Supervision| WS 20/21

Learning Goals / Competencies

The tutoring with supervision

• Within the tutoring of a course of the master’s program Educational technology, the tutors learn to deal with different student requirements and abilities.
• Tutors learn how to impart complex scientific contents in different learning contexts.

Module Content

The Tutoring with Supervision implies

• Regular attendance at a course in the master program Educational Technology
• Autonomous teaching as well as with co-tutors and lecturers
• Creation and correction of tutorial questions and examples
• Weekly consultation hours for students
• Weekly guided tutor meetings
• Supervision and correction of tests

Requirements to obtain the 8 CP

1. Attending the tutor training
2. Being a tutor for one semester
3. Writing a 2-page tutor report after your experience as a tutor

Requirements for the tutor report

Document characteristics

• Around 2-3 pages long. No cover page needed
• Arial 11, 1.0 line spacing
• Filename and format: “First Name Last Name – Tutor Report.pdf”
• Deadline: TBA
• What happens next?: Turn in here in moodle, I read it and if it’s ok, I confirm to you that you got the Tutor CP. The CP may take a while to appear on your transcript.

What to include

• Your name, matriculation number, name of the course for which you tutored and the semester (including year). This info can be just added on the first 2-3 lines of the 1st page

Clearly define on your report the following sections:

• Course description: In 2 or 3 sentences, describe what the course was about and its main goal(s)
• Tutorial preparation goals: How you prepared your tutorials in terms of what you wanted to achieve with them (i.e. tutorial goals) and how, tools/ materials used, and frequency of the tutorials. Include mentioning your main goals as a tutor
• Tutor tasks: Mention the tasks you did as a tutor before, during (e.g. tutorials, grading worksheets / exams, answering doubts, support, coordination with the instructor(s)), and after the course
• Experiences and difficulties: Actions you did because of a need (own, students and/or lecturer). Expected and unexpected difficulties encountered during your tutor tasks and indicating how you solved them
• Improvement ideas: Improvement suggestions regarding (a) tutor duties: tasks, interaction with students and interaction with instructor, (b) the structure and/or content of the whole course, and (c) any other aspect you may consider relevant
• Reflection: Assessment of the goals you had towards your tutorials and your performance as a tutor. Which goals were achieved, which weren’t and why. Insights or things learned based on the difficulties that you had as a tutor and how you solved them. Overall, what you learned from this experience of being a tutor
• Advice for future tutors: Write here some lines with advice for future tutors. Provide both course-related and general advice covering topics such as: how to prepare the tutorials, what to expect from oneself/ the instructor/ the students, and how to react and manage unexpected situations. You can include examples. My intention with this section is to share it word by word with the next generation of tutors. You can either include your name here or leave it anonymous