Apply to Become a Tutor
CAE accepts applications on a continual basis due to the changing needs of tutor demands. If you meet the qualifications below and have a passion to help students, submit an application to be considered. To ensure you have work study hours available, contact the Student Employment Coordinator in the Financial Aid Office at stuwork@luther.edu.
Qualified applicants must:
- Be current, work-study eligible Luther students
- Earn a B or better in the courses they wish to tutor
- Provide a faculty reference for each subject you would like to tutor for
- Be able to communicate effectively with other students
- Demonstrate reliability and professionalism
Tutor Training
Luther College is Certified Level 1 from the College Reading & Learning Association’s (CRLA) International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC).
CRLA and ITTPC are proud to serve as a benchmark and standard for excellent tutor training programs around the globe.
As a CRLA Level 1 Certified Tutor, you will gain:
- Secure greater student and faculty confidence and respect for tutorial staff and program.
- Add completion of CRLA ITTPC Tutor Training Program certification to your resumes and will be able to talk about your training and experience in job interviews.
- Transferability of CRLA Tutor Certification to other certifying colleges and universities. In other words, a tutor trained at Level I at one institution would be recognized at another.
CRLA tutor training is required for all CAE tutors. Tutor trainings are a total of ten hours for the semester. For the safety of all involved, tutor trainings will be a combination of in person, virtual, and asynchronous sessions.
Benefits
CRLA International Tutor Training Program Certification offers numerous benefits for individual tutors, tutorial coordinators, and programs. The following is a partial list of the opportunities and benefits that are possible with CRLA ITTPC.
Benefits to the institution:
- Sets a benchmark for academic support excellence across the institution.
- Ensures compliance with internationally-recognized best practices in higher education tutorial services.
- Increases assurance that tutoring services comply with standards for ethical academic behavior.
- Improves career-readiness by providing quality professional development for tutors.
- Creates additional opportunities for students to connect to faculty.
- Strengthens the connection between the curriculum and academic support services.
- Provides qualitative and quantitative data that enriches responses to accreditation standards.
Benefits to program administrators:
- Documents program initiatives and processes.
- Gives feedback from highly-experienced reviewers.
- Provides tools for creating a coherent training curriculum.
- Attracts motivated students interested in professional development opportunities.
- Generates interest and respect from campus colleagues and students.
Benefits to program tutors:
- Teaches the skills and knowledge commensurate with best practices for academic support programs and services.
- Increases confidence in the content area, public speaking, academic organization, and job performance.
- Creates a pathway to documenting experience and growth over time.
- Encourages tutors to view themselves as para-professionals in their work.
- Improves training and evaluation focus.
- Strengthens tutors’ resume in the form of internationally recognized certificate.
- Creates a culture of learning for tutors.
- May improve wages (if wages are tied to completing certification).
Benefits to students:
- The student experiences the benefit of working with someone trained in effective helping strategies, communication skills, and structuring the tutoring experience.
- The student becomes more confident as a learner by participating in a learner-centered experience.
- Research has shown that students who attend tutoring with trained tutors perform better academically than those who attend tutoring with untrained tutors.
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