Student Academic Support
This topic helps senior administrators to offer reasonable learning support programs for students through many methods: tutoring services and undergraduate teaching assistants (UTAs) to improve teaching and learning quality. Moreover, in this part, we focus on approaching peer-tutoring services and UTAs due to their benefits so as to enhance teaching and learning quality in target universities. Moreover, all of teaching methods are implemented in order to increase student success in the future and rentention rate.
This section also focuses on management skill of the senior leaders in Higher Education Institutions. Therefore, Human Resources Management (HRM) skill is the key to choose right person at the right position and at the right time.
Moreover, it is really not necessary to use many different methods, it is important to balance supply (resources of your universities: human, financial, time, ...) and demand (real needs of students) to make the most suitable choice to achieve to the effectivity of promoting teaching and learning quality.
Learning Objectives
Integrating tutoring services with courses
Utilizing undergraduate teaching assistants
Academic Coaching
Choose between the most suitable methods of academic support for your university to enhance teaching and learning.
How to choose the most suitable person for different positions such as: tutoring, UTA, academic coach?
On all these issues, how should leaders decentralize power to still achieve their goal of academically supporting students?
To step by step implement the teaching and learning strategy towards sustainable education in the target institutions.
Research, implement and evaluate to constantly innovate activities to enhance the quality of teaching and learning.
What are the differences among tutoring, teaching assistant and academic coach?
Tutor
"A personal tutor is an academic member of staff who supports a number of students on a range of academic and pastoral issues. They usually draw on a variety of insights and expertise, signposting and referring to other academic and professional colleagues, where appropriate, to provide consistent and robust advice and guidance"
Lochtie, D., McIntosh, E., Stork, A., & Walker, B. (2018)
Teaching Assistant
A person who assist teachers in classes in terms of grading, making roll-calls or other activities related to the class curriculum. In higher education, TA can be clusterred into 2 main direction: graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching assistant. Both are popular in different universities, but the latter is trendier and also more effective.
Academic Coach
"Academic coaches frequently meet with students and invest individualized, consistent and strategic support that differs from support services on campus such as advising, tutoring, or mentoring"
Assignments/Assessments
Multiple choice questions
In-class debate or presentation
Discussion questions
Readings Materials
Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research (white paper) (Point 8.6, p.13)
Coaching Toward Completion: Academic Coaching Factors Influencing Community College Student Success
Lochtie, D., McIntosh, E., Stork, A., & Walker, B. (2018). Effective personal tutoring in higher education. Critical Publishing.