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Tutoring and Assisting with CAR
- Look for students who are successful in calculus who have an interest in teaching
- Studuents getting A or B in Calc 1 or 2
- Students fill out applications and are interviewed
- Hired based on the above qualifications
- Training takes place during first semester of tutoring
- Tutors meet once per week with Math Ed faculty to discuss ideas of knowing and learning mathematics relative to college algebra and precalculus content
- These are paid training sessions
- Tutors form own cohort to assist each other during the semester
- Tutors are responsible for helping college algebra and precalculus students learn how to think mathematically
- They do NOT solve problems for the students
- Tutors work together to make sure tutor room is always staffed
- They can trade shifts or pass shifts to another tutor when necessary
- High performing tutors may be assigned to assist in a college algebra or precalc course
- They work with an experienced teacher
- Their duties include sitting in and helping in class, grading, and spending a few hours in the tutor room
- They often get to teach some classes
- Students who have tutored and assisted may get an opportunity to teach their own class
- They receive week long intensive paid training on how to handle their own class
- They learn how to use the technology
- How to track grades and handle students on their own
- Other policies that are in place for teachers at ASU
- Students who have been chosen to teach will be assigned a mentor teacher to whom they report
- They will have their own section of college algebra for which they will be responsible
- They will use a curriculum designed by ASU Math Ed faculty that engages students in the learning of mathematics
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