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Welcome to the course
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Course overview
The 'Tutoring in Higher Education' short course is part of the Tutor Professional Learning Programme, an initiative by the Centre for Learning, Teaching & Development to provide tutors with the necessary knowledge, skills, and values to enable them to effectively execute their tutoring responsibilities. Participants will be introduced to tutoring from the South African perspective, the significance of tutoring to improve students' achievement of learning outcomes, facilitation skills, and blended learning.
Motivation for the course
Tutoring is at the heart of every university learning and teaching process designed to improve students’ success rates and to enable students to achieve their learning goals. In the higher education context, tutoring can be described as supplementary teaching that is often provided by senior students, academic professional learning practitioners and other learning facilitators for students to gain basic and more advanced academic skills as well as learning support in specific discipline-related learning and assessment. However, many tutors assume the role with little understanding of what they are expected to do. The purpose of this course is to provide tutors with practical insights about the process of tutoring for them to become efficient and effective.
Topics covered in the course
Week 1: Introduction to tutoring
Week 2: Purpose of tutorials
Week 3: Tutor roles and responsibilities
Week 3: Supporting students to succeed
Week 4: Assessment and feedback
Week 5: Reflection on tutoring practice
Learning outcomes
By the end of the short course, participants should be able to:
Explain the purpose of tutorials in Higher Education - LO.1
Discuss the significance of tutoring for improving the achievement of learning outcomes - LO.2
Demonstrate knowledge of different facilitation strategies in response to given tutorial scenarios - LO.3
Demonstrate an understanding of their roles as tutors in the facilitation of blended learning - LO.4
Apply basic principles of assessment to assess their students, for both diagnostic and formative purposes - LO.5
Provide examples of how their personal beliefs about tutorial facilitation have changed over the duration of the course - LO.6
Tools used in this course
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Technical support
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For queries about the course, contact the instructor at Mueletshedzi.Ndwambi@wits.ac.za. Emails will be attended to within 48 hours.
Support services
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