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