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  • Academic Tutoring
    The Learning Commons offers online tutoring in all subjects, college writing, ESL, Senior Projects, learning strategies, and the writing fellows' services. Students seeking learning support may state their interest in reserving a tutor at [email protected] and a trained BLC peer tutor will reply with an invitation to schedule a tutoring session.

     
  • Senior Project Support
    The Learning Commons provides one-on-one trained peer support in all stages of drafting, writing, and revising the Senior Project. Students may meet online on a regular basis with a peer tutor from the well-known Writing Fellows Program, talk through and stay on track with writing, and share tips on timing, revising, and presenting the project. For more information about getting set up for regular writing conferences, check-in, and strategies support with a Senior Project tutor, please email [email protected]. 

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  • Library Services
    The Stevenson Library staff supports students, faculty, and staff by providing online research and writing support, research workshops, and most other library services remotely. Faculty can reach out to their divisional liaisons to request course support, including live research workshops, online research guides, and help finding born-digital course materials. Students can request an online research or writing consultation. Visit the website for up-to-date information on remote library services and other useful resources.
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Foreign Language Tutoring

Language Center tutors offer online sessions. Please visit the Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures website for a full list of sessions and tutor contact information.

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Online Tutoring Best Practices from the Learning Commons

How to Request Online Tutoring

Students seeking support in Senior Project writing, learning strategies, any subject taught at Bard, writing consulting, and more may state their interest in reserving a tutor at [email protected]. The Bard Learning Commons staff will contact a trained peer tutor to work with you.
  • When a tutor becomes available, the tutor sends an invitation to the student to join the communication media of their collaborative choice: Hangouts, What's App, Blue Jeans Video Conferencing, GoToMeet, We Chat, Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Facetime, Slack, a VPN work-around if in China, etc.
  • The tutor notifies the student through their Bard email account. Student and tutor may then arrange a time for a one-hour session on their own.
  • The student signs in to their email account a few minutes before the scheduled session, with questions and documents ready to share with the tutor. In some cases, these may have been shared online in advance.
  • The tutor chimes in to the communication app, and the session begins. Following Bard Learning Commons policy, tutoring sessions run for about an hour.

Tutoring Tools and Preparation

  • High-quality real-time audio and video conferencing tool, such as Zoom or Google Hangouts to allow both the tutor and student to engage in face-to-face conversation.
  • Collaboration tools, such as interactive whiteboard or Google Docs, which allow the student and tutor feel connected through progress and collaboration.
  • An easy-to-use forum for communication between sessions, such as Google Docs Comments feature, where the tutor and tutee can build rapport.
  • A consistent focus on rapport and collaboration, such that technological media and interfaces are used to build rapport and connection, not just for the sake of using them.
  • Advanced preparation and flexibility, as with any online modalities, technical hiccups can and do happen.
    • Be prepared with an alternate way to reach each other (e.g. text message).
    • Log into the session early to ensure your audio and video settings are working.
    • Come to the session having shared your Google doc with your tutor, so that the tutoring time is spent on tutoring and not on sharing your document. Not sure how to do that? Watch this Google docs share tutorial (2m).
    • Come to the session with your questions or areas of concern in your study notebook.

Online Collaboration Tips for Tutors and Tutees

  • Tutees lead the collaborative practice with their questions: Tutees are encouraged to use Google Docs and use the Insert Comment feature to add in comments and questions related to particular aspects of their draft.
    • Learn more how to do that here: Google docs tutorial for adding comments (1m)
    • Learn more how to share your document with your tutor here: Google docs share tutorial (2m)
  • Tutors are encouraged to provide meaningful, constructive feedback: Primarily, this will be through the video conferencing format, but it can be reinforced by leaving helpful reminders within the Google doc for the tutee to return to later to address. Tutors should encourage the students to take notes while in session.
  • Online tutoring is not a proofreading or editing service: Tutors and tutees are expected to innovate upon interactive methods of conferencing online and with intentionality, thus addressing basic questions of tutoring pedagogy in a whole new context.

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