Description:
Provide tutoring support services to Collin College students. Help students understand the writing process, how to write thesis statements, how to organize and develop ideas and how to correct papers for sentence fluency, grammar, punctuation and diction.
Required Qualifications:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Support students writing efforts through tutoring.
- Maintain record of each tutoring session with student.
- Report promptly to students professor on the material covered in the tutoring session (writing problems addressed) if applicable.
- Attend staff meetings or professional development as directed.
- Maintain confidentiality of student records in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Ensure offices and files are adequately secured on a daily basis.
Supplemental Functions
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Perform all duties and maintain all standards in accordance with college policies, procedures and Core Values.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of college-level composition
- Knowledge of the English language
- Knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Publisher
- Knowledge of MLA style and format
- Knowledge of presentation software
- Organization and time management skills
- Document design skills
- Creative thinking skills
- Presentation skills
- Computer and applicable software skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Ability to create a positive tutoring and learning environment in the writing center
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships