COMMON TEACHING SITUATIONS:

Tutoring

Tutoring individual students or small groups of students enables you to diagnose and address students' difficulties with course material more specifically and thoroughly than in a large class setting.

Being a successful tutor requires several strategies:

• Asking questions rather than simply giving answers
• Listening to each student's responses to your questions to help you diagnose the student's confusion
• Actively involving the student in reaching solutions
• Asking the student to explain what s/he now understands
• Acknowledging the larger context in which the student is working and keeping his/her learning consistent with this context

For additional suggestions related to teaching students individually, see the TA Handbook section on Office Hours.

For university policies concerning private tutoring of students in your department, see http://www.washington.edu/faculty/facsenate/handbook/04-04-04.htm