Faculty

Embed Tutoring into Your Classes

Embedded tutoring helps you transform your classroom into an active, collaborative environment and provides many benefits to your students, including:

just-in-time support
learning/study skills
critical thinking skills
connection to the college & resources
connection to peers
technology & online learning support

How does Embedded Tutoring work?

You invite one of your former students to come back and work as a tutor in your class.
The student tutor uses their student-knowledge, subject-knowledge, and tutor-knowledge to help students feel connected to the college, develop learning/study skills, and learn course concepts.
Embedded Tutoring faculty and staff provide ongoing training and mentorship to all tutors and faculty.

For more information, check out these resources or contact us:

Embedded Tutoring for English classes: Jessica Gatewood, jgatewood@gavilan.edu
Embedded Tutoring for all other classes: Megan Wong-Lane, mwong@gavilan.edu
Instructor's Guide to Embedded Tutoring
Overview of Embedded Tutoring Flyer
10 Ways Tutors Can Support Student Success (from the RP Group)

Class Work Sessions: Bring your class to the Learning Commons

Bring your class to the Learning Commons to facilitate small group projects, work on a specific skill or concept, or use the space, resources, and tutors to facilitate other active and collaborative learning activities.

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Learning Activities

Faculty in the Learning Commons work with instructors and student peer educators to design interactive workshops that help students develop and practice essential academic skills necessary to succeed in college.

Reading Scholarly Articles/Challenging Texts
Formatting & Documentation: MLA and APA
Using iLearn (Canvas) and other Technology
Study Skills: Note-Taking, Time Management, Annotation, Preparing for In-Class Essays
Other: Let us design a class work session/workshop specific to your class
Research, all stages (in partnership with the library)

Check us out in the news: Learning Commons Focuses on Student Success and Access

Ways to Integrate Tutoring & Learning Support into Instruction

ASK FOR AN EMBEDDED TUTOR

dedicated peer tutor
active & collaborative learning in the classroom
study sessions to extend learning outside of the classroom

Email: mwong@gavilan.edu

PROMOTE TUTORING

Gavilan’s peer tutors are ready and willing to help in so many ways—and you can show off these supports in your classes by pulling up our webpage in Zoom. Here are some quick sentences you can add to ANY iLearn page, assignment, announcement, or email:

Need help? Work with a peer tutor to help you learn this concept.
Confusion is part of learning! I encourage you to work with a peer tutor to learn this concept.
Good news! You can work with a peer tutor to practice this skill/study for the exam/brainstorm for your essay.