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Hello, and happy Friday! I have a question about how to coordinate group tutoring. I am beginning to max out my tutors and would like to encourage them to work with students in small groups of two or three so we can continue to accommodate our students' needs without hiring more tutors. (I already have 30 tutors on my staff and I don't have an assistant.) Some of our instructors are kind enough to help us organize group tutoring by identifying students in their classes who need help and finding classroom space for them to meet (which is at a premium on our campus). However, I don't think most of our instructors have time to help me manage this and I don't exactly know how to go about it. Our tutoring is structured such that when a student requests help, I give the student the tutor's contact information, and it is up to the student to initiate the contact and schedule a time to meet with the tutor. So the tutors and students are in charge of their own schedules. With this system, the responsibility for scheduling group tutoring would fall to the tutors. This seems somewhat unfair because they already have plenty of communication breakdowns when trying to schedule with only one student at a time, not to mention that our current pay structure does not allow for them to be compensated extra when they work with groups instead of one-on-one. I'd be interested to hear how others manage this situation. Do you pay your students extra when they work with a group? How are the group sessions scheduled/managed? Thanks for your feedback. Chrisa Hotchkiss Director of Learning Services The Teaching and Learning Center Bertrand Hall, room 110 Dominican University of California 50 Acacia Ave. San Rafael, CA 94901 415-257-0153 (phone) 415-257-0177 (fax) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask]