Guide to Good Tutoring

Good tutoring involves:

• Reading the notes
• Testing / familiarising yourself with the problems, using *only content covered in the notes*
• Answering the students' questions referring to the notes
• Being polite and encouraging to the students & teachers
• Looking out for struggling students

Be part of the tutor community on Slack

Join us on Slack when you're answering questions! It's a good way to see who else is online, and the right place to ask questions if you're not sure of how to respond to a student. But remember: please don't post the student's name on Slack! Instead, link straight to a URL.

Don't be that tutor. If you're uncertain, there's plenty of other tutors on the slack channel to ask for ideas. And remember it's better for the student to receive a coherent reply tomorrow than a garbled mess of characters in two minutes.

Check out the #good-tutor channel on slack for examples of good responses, and feel free to lurk in other tutors' threads to see how they are answering questions. If you see a good response, throw it in the #good-tutor channel!

The first messages are often going to be reminding the students to read the notes just before the question and check that they understand the problem to be solved by asking them to tell you what they need to do.