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Peer Tutor Job Qualifications & Description
How to Become a Peer Tutor for Academic Support Programs
Tutors for Academic Support Programs (ASP) are students who excel academically, have good people skills, and are motivated by a desire to help other TSU students. The ASP hires tutors in Spanish, TSI Reading, and TSI Mathematics.
The minimum requirements for becoming a tutor are:
- Current enrollment as an TSUstudent
- A’s or B’s in the courses you’ll tutor
- An overall GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Availability to participate in training sessions
- Must be able to devote an entire semester to being employed as a tutor
If you meet the requirements above, we encourage you to apply for a job as an ASP tutor.
Texas Success Initiative Reading Tutor
- Provide students with reading strategies that will help them be successful in classes that have a high concentrated level of reading.
- Provide students with study skill strategies that will help them study more efficiently in courses with a high concentrated level of reading.
- Motivate student to succeed in their endeavors to master the class with a C or better.
Texas Success Initiative Mathematics Tutor
- Provide students with strategies that will help them be successful in Math 100 or Math 101.
- Provide students with study skill strategies that will help them study more efficiently in Math 100 or Math 101.
- Motivate student to succeed in their endeavors to master the class with a C or better.
Spanish Tutor
- Provide students with strategies that will help them be successful in freshman or sophomore Spanish classes.
- Provide students with study skill strategies that will help them study more efficiently in freshman or sophomore Spanish courses.