Empowering Students: Academic Support and Peer Tutoring at Our College (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Learning support continuously is working to establish an academic culture here at the college where seeking out support and asking for help are an okay thing. As a matter of fact, becoming resourceful and responsible goes a long way for a student in establishing the professional and knowledgeable components of PEAK. The Academic Support Center and the tutors involved are an important part of this culture as well. Our academic tutors are trained, full-time, paid students who are there to be a support and a resource to our students. They'll work together with a student to promote understanding and knowledge across all areas of the curriculum.

Speaker 2: Our biggest message that we want students to know is that we've got their back. Tony, myself, the tutors, faculty and staff, everyone wants to see you succeed. Now, it's ultimately up to the student though to seek out resources on campus, those resources being one, the Academic Support Center. You can get tutoring here, but it's also a great place to just come and study. And if you talk to Tony and myself, we can help with time management, organizational skills, commitment management, reading strategies, and other things like that. For more information, check out the Academic Support Center website. You can find tutor hours, bios, and contact information. You can also find Tony and myself's contact information. And if you can't find a time where you and a tutor can meet during the scheduled hours, contact me and we will set up a time to accommodate your schedule.

Speaker 3: So like something I thought about when I was thinking about tutoring in the Academic Support Center is that when you teach something to someone, that's really when you learn it best. And I think what's really cool is that when students come in, although we are knowledgeable on these concepts, they're a little bit rusty to us a lot of the time. So they kind of have to explain to us what they do know about the concept and almost re-teach it to us in a sense. And then through that process, we can kind of work together and get them a better grasp on the concept as well as refresh ourselves. But I think a lot of the times when you have a professor who's incredibly well-versed in something, they can skip over some details that seem commonplace to them and that's where students get lost. But getting a peer-on-peer perspective gives them a little bit different taste and helps them to sift through that topic.

Speaker 4: Students come in, there's generally this long kind of interview process where you and them kind of discover where they're having trouble. And it's that process of helping them find where their misconceptions are that you not only help them see where they need help, but you help them kind of learn how to help themselves.