Tutor Center
 Mission
The Tutor Center mission is to increase students academic achievement. Our goal is to enhance student's ability to learn, apply knowledge and to think critically. Students will become more self-confident and self-directed learners as a result of their tutorial relationship.
Services
The Tutor Center’s fifty peer tutors offer free individual peer tutoring, in seventy-five subjects, representing nineteen majors. Our goals are to improve students’ academic achievement, ability to learn, to apply knowledge and to help students develop critical thinking skills. Students become more self-confident and self-directed learners as a result of their tutorial relationship.
Tutoring sessions focus on reviewing and explaining concepts and specific topics. Tutors also introduce study and learning methods that assist students to develop new habits for learning.
Individual Study and Learning Strategy Sessions are provided by professional staff. Students are assisted to craft a study plan that builds effective learning habits, long term memory and improved reading, note-taking and test-taking skills.
Three group tutoring services are available. Peer Facilitated Study Groups after each class is offered for selected courses. The Peer Facilitated Study Group tutor introduces supplemental instruction activities to assist students’ learning of the traditionally difficult topics from each lesson.
The Study Partner service matches students in the same class with a study partner and provides guidelines on how to maximize your learning and time while studying with a classmate.
The Study Group Peer Facilitation service provides a peer tutor trained in effective study group processes. If you are studying with a group of three to five students you may request a peer facilitator who will attend your group. The peer facilitator’s goal is to maximize each members learning and critical thinking through group discussion and supplemental instruction activities.
Test Preparation Workshops facilitated by professional tutors assist students to prepare for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL), General Curriculum, Foundations of Reading, and Early Childhood Tests. Individual peer tutoring at the Writing Center assists students to prepare for the MTEL Communication and Literacy Skills test. Professional MTEL preparation tutoring can also be requested.
Eligibility: All registered students
Location: 3rd floor Library, room 324
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Availability: Tutors meet with students in the library and are available by appointment seven days a week at mutually agreeable times during the day, evening or weekends.
Information for Tutors
For Placement Test information visit the Placement
Testing website.
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