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Tutor program helps students brush up skills By Shelley Ball Of The Print Students or instructors in terested in making extra money by helping other students master specific skills should contact Tutorial Services Coor dinator Judy Peabody about a tutoring job. Wages are based on a hourly basis, ranging from $3.50 for non-degree tutors to $5.85 for tutors with a degree. Applicants are required to have received a grade of A or B in the subject they wish to tutor and need the recommendation of a faculty member or depart ment chairman. A question naire will also be filled out by the applicant, including sub ject, type and number of students, and amount of free hours available for tutoring. Students who wish to be tutored would also fill out a similar form. Possible tutors would then be interviewed and selected by the head of the department in which the tutor wishes to teach. “The program is designed help students students brush brush up up on on periods. to to help periods. The The library, library, science science Peabody she Peabody said. said. She currently currently tutor« tutors 12 their basic skills,” Peabody labs, math lab, and even Tutoring sessions can be students, most of them East said. “It’s a retention program hallways are used, for tutoring as short as 15 minutes to an Asian. basically, and it keeps the Col sessions, since the four-cubicle hour and a half, to as long as The 80-year-old tutor lege from being a revolving tutoring room in McLoughlin an entire term, after which works from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. door.”7 “ Hall is too small for everyone, Peabody will make an evalua helping students with English, Peabody said that last writing and psychology, or year’s average age for students “ anything a student needs,” being tutored was 26, which Wilson said. means that the bulk of students Wilson also mentioned tutored have been out of one-on-one tutoring as an en school for awhile and need to joyable part of her job and uses refresh basic skills. This term it with her own students. has brought an increase in the “I think I like figuring out volume of foreign students, ap how to approach each student proximately 42, Peabody said. and help them,” tutor Penny Successes for the tutorial Fahland said in regard to her program have been in ex job. istence, with Peabody hiring Fahland, 44, started tutor between 30-50 tutors. ing four years ago at the Col This term there is an ex lege through the recommenda cess of 100 students being tion of a friend. She graduated tutored, with 37 tutors helping from the University of them in subjects that range Washington with a major in from accounting^ biology and education, and was a first foreign language to writing grade teacher prior to having a composition and basic study family, after which she became skills. a tutor. After a tutor has been Fahland tutors six students hired, Peabody will bring with learning problems in spell together a tutor and a student BONITA VAN HORN tutors student Han Tran. ing, reading, grammar and Staff Photo by Troy Maben who both have correlating time writing. “Each student has an in tion to determine the student’s progress. Students are also dividual problem, so it makes monitored by their tutors on a you feel good when you have individual successes,” Fahland daily basis. study guide, and occasional in the programs which includes Tutor Mabel D. Wilson said. Besides regular subjects, meetings with instructors on six different courses. Among said, “The challenge of campus. According to Bob them are money management, meeting the needs of foreign reading and spelling is taught Wynia, Assistant to Dean of In career planning, effective students, and learning about along with study skills, which structional Services, the parenting, personal health, their customs and cultures,” is Peabody feels is a big thrust of courses are basically regular computing, and understanding what makes her job enjoyable. the tutoring program. credit courses of very high human behavior (psychology). Wilson, a graduate of the When asked for her feel quality. There will be no major changes University of California, ings on the tutorial program. in the program in the near Berkley with honors in Italian Peabody replied, “It has kept The programs are pro - future. and Spanish, has worked at the students on campus successful duced by colleges and corpora Two years ago the majori College for nearly seven years. ly for a long time.” tions such as Boeing and BBC ty of students taking and cover a wide range of telecourses were full-time topics from the arts to technical students but recently that trend courses. A person registers for has reversed and the majority telecourses in the same way as of the telecourse students are any other course. taking them exclusively. One of At the College there will the values of telecourse, Wynia Five representatives of the thought it was a great con be about two-to-three hundred feels, is that people who only Associated Student Govern ference, most of it was helpful students enrolled in the courses want to enroll in a few classes ment at Clackamas Communi and it gave us a good chance to as of next term. Presently there may do so without commuting ty College traveled to the an see through some of available are 180 students participating to the campus daily. nual regional Association of entertainment. It was good in that it gave us a chance to meet The College began its College Unions-International telecourse program two years held last weekend Oct. 29-31 people in a more informal at mosphere.” ago with only one course of in Ashland, Ore. Part of the conference was fered. Since then, it has been ACU-I exists to help pro enlarged to six different vide nationwide and interna devoted to showcasing talent courses. tional communication for stu acts and different performing The courses, which dent activities and student groups, but the majority of the delagates’ time was spent in dif generally cost about +'00,000 union people. to $1 million apiece t<_ pro Attending from ferent sessions that dealt with duce, are very effective, Wynia Clackamas were Director of individual issues. Some of the believes. Much of the material Student Activities Debbie issues discussed were women in the courses is not possible to Baker, Outdoor Wilderness as bosses, planning and use in regular lecture classes Coordinator Kelly Sullivan, organizing an arts and crafts but is made possible ' in ASG President Paul Nastari, fair, creative decision making, telecourses by modern video and ASG Senators Ben Camp X-rated films-pro and con, and many others. technology. bell and Tim Sytsma. “I felt that the community “The quality of the courses “I felt it was one of the best is improving all the time due to planned conferences that I colleges that attended and put the explosion of video have seen in a long time. I on workshops did a more effec technology,” Wynia said. In thought the opening session tive and high quality job than the past, many telecourses was great, with the icebreaking the sessions that were done by were just a film of an instructor session conducted by Utah some of the four-year schools,” giving a lecture but now they State University speaker Ray Nastari remarked. In the business meeting have become much more Myers. It was an excellent way graphic, using actual laboratory to meet people, and to get to new student representatives for and professional demonstra know one another,” Debbie the next year were elected. The tions. Baker said.“I also like a lot of new chairman is Scott Seibert A common misconcep the showcasing of different from Umpqua Community tion, Wynia says, is that talent act. There were some College, vice ¡chairman is telecourses are especially easy. acts that might really fit our Carlos Pedraze from University of Montana, and named to the He maintains that they are just students well,” she remarked. as rigorous and sometimes “The thing that I liked best secretary position was Janice Dupps from Alaska Communi more so than regular lecture was the showcasing,” Senator course. Campbell said. “Over all 1 ty College. College offers new telecourses Since its conception in the 1940s, television has been the object of varying opinions as a communications medium. Some have hailed it as a great potential tool of learning while others have criticized it as a mindless “baby sitter” or even-a medium of propaganda. At any rate, television is gaining ground as an educational medium at Clackamas Com munity College and other col leges around the country. Telecourses are television programs designed for the specific purpose of credit class instruction at home as well as for general viewing. The pro grams are used in conjunction with a text book, a student Officers visit meeting
