Tutor Roles

You’ve mastered a subject and have been approved to tutor. So, you’re going to be a peer tutor, huh? Well, we better take a closer look at what a tutor is supposed to do.

To understand this better, let’s tear apart the definition like this:

Peer : Means that you are at approximately the same grade level in school as the students you tutor.

Tutee : The student being tutored.

A teaching and learning relationship : Means that you and your tutees develop ways of communication and ways of being together which fit the purpose of teaching and learning.

Teaching : Is any act which facilitates or provides a structure for another’s learning.

Learning : Is acquiring knowledge.

The differences between teaching and tutoring.

In general, tutors are teachers. The difference is that teachers have expanded responsibilities such as preparing and grading test, preparing lessons as well as other administrative duties. Basically, a tutor is a teacher without all of the paperwork!

Now that we have that cleared up, we’ll look at the ‘role’ of the tutor.