Practice Teaching Assistant

Instructions - how to start?

Follow this link to choose a client you would like to tutor, and register with him or her. The title usually contains the following information: the class the pupil is attending/Street where tutoring takes place/name/subjects, which they need most help with. Each child now has a unique code to help you navigate the high number of pupils. The two final digits represent the child’s year of birth.

The subjects are there for a general idea only. You don't need to worry about them and they do not have to correspond with your specialisation. The children usually need help with the absolute basics, such as addition, multiplication, etc.; i.e. things everyone knows regardless of their field of study. However, this doesn't mean you have to know everything. If you don't know, don't be afraid to admit it in front of the child. There is nothing to be afraid of; what matters is that you will spend time together and that you'll help him or her in every way you can.

Example:

  1. Every child has a "coordinator" who will approve your choice of pupil and give you all the necessary information as well as contact information for the child’s family, guardian, legal representative, or a school
     staff member via your notebook.
  2. Contact the parents (or a school employee, or a social worker) using the information given to you by the coordinator. If you have trouble getting in touch with the family (e.g. if nobody is answering your calls), please e-mail your coordinator (contact below).
  3. Arrange a first meeting with the family, where you will share all the necessary information about the tutoring.
  4. Print out the documents in the Downloads section.

First visit
Have you signed up with your client and agreed on your first meeting? Excellent! You, your client and his or her family are now going to meet in person. You may be feeling a little nervous about this. That is perfectly normal; everyone gets nervous. You have nothing to be afraid of. The first meeting is first and foremost an opportunity to get to know each other and sort out all the necessary details.

 !Important! The first meeting is the time when the parents (or legal representatives, or school staff members) need to sign the Tutoring Agreement. One copy is for the family, the other is for you, which you need to scan and upload in the Homework Vault. You should therefore bring 2 copies of this document to the first meeting.


Tutoring to do list

  • teach 26 h per semester (60 hours in total incl. preparation)
  • keep records of each tutoring session in your monthly record sheet
  • submit a document in the Homework Vault (Tutoring Agreement) - by   October 31 2019
  • at the end of the semester (after teaching 26 hours) submit a document in the Homework Vault (Record Sheet) open until January 31 2020.
  • complete the ROPOT.