The College Reading and Learning Association recently recertified the Learning Commons tutoring program at Central Lakes College.
The process involved hours of compiling data to confirm the validity of the program. This 5-year, level 1 program certification allows the Learning Commons at CLC to hire academic student tutors to meet the needs of their peers. It also provides tutors with a certification they can take with them if they choose to transfer to another school when their studies at CLC are completed.
To meet the CRLA expectations, CLC hires tutors within the top 5 percent of the course in which they will tutor and a faculty member must recommend them. Finally, the tutor candidate must be interviewed by the Learning Commons coordinator. If the tutor candidate is hired, they must complete 10 hours of training and perform 25-plus hours of tutoring in order to earn their tutor certification.
"The tutoring program at CLC takes great pride in providing high quality tutoring for our students," said Teri Duff, Learning Commons coordinator at CLC, in a news release. "The students who utilize our tutors find them very helpful and it shows with the continued increase in the usage each semester."
