Become a tutor

Your role as a tutor

Presentation skills are taught in many different Bachelor/Master programmes at WUR. In 3 sessions, we teach students how to become an effective presenter. To develop their presenting skills, students deliver short presentations in small groups of 8 students. Tutoring within Presentation skills includes facilitating sessions in which students practice with giving presentations and grading the presentations and students’ reflection reports afterwards. We ask you to attend the plenary part of the session (facilitated by a trainer) and facilitate the last part (1,5h) independently.

In short, your role as a tutor is to:

• Facilitate the presentation sessions in which the students give and receive feedback on their presentations;
• If necessary, ask reflective questions during the tutor sessions;
• Assess and grade presentations and reflection reports.

Being prepared for tutoring

We will prepare you for tutoring before the first session starts, so that you are familiar with all the ins and outs of tutoring. We do so in different ways:

• Via our online tutor team (MS Teams) where you can find all necessary information/instructions about tutoring, such as 1-minute knowledge clips in which the essence of your role is presented;
• Via an instruction meeting about tutoring;
• Via an assessment meeting about how to grade reports;
• Via a Whatsapp group in which all tutors and (some) trainers will be included to share questions/answers and last-minute issues.

The instruction meetings are mandatory if its your first time tutoring in our courses.

Time investment

Beforehand, we ask you to prepare yourself for tutoring by watching knowledge clips and attending the instruction meeting (3-4 hours). A course is generally 3 sessions – mornings or afternoons. We ask you to be present during all 3 sessions. Afterwards, you will attend an assessment meeting about how to grade reports (2 hours) and you will grade the presentations and reflection papers (0,5 hours per student).

Experienced tutors (tutors who have attended the new instruction meeting and assessment meeting from January 2021 on) do not need to attend the instruction meetings again when they are tutoring next time (they are then considered an experienced tutor). The assessment meeting is optional for experienced tutors.

Compensation

Next to the fact that tutoring at ELS is all about supporting your own development, you will be financially compensated. It is also possible to receive credits alongside a financial compensation.

Financial compensation
The financial compensation for tutoring concerns a volunteer compensation. Please be informed about the rules and regulations of the Dutch Belastingdienst concerning volunteer compensations.

If it is your first time tutoring one of our courses since January 2021, you will be compensated € 137,50 for one group. For this, your presence at the instruction meeting about tutoring, all 3 tutoring sessions and the assessment meeting about how to grade reports, plus the grading of the reports iteself is required. (First time) tutors who tutor more than one course do not have to follow multiple instruction and/or assessment meetings about how to grade reports. For experienced tutors attending the assessment meeting is optional.

In case you have tutored groups before, meaning you have attended our instruction meeting about tutoring and the assessment meeting about how to grade reports before, you will be compensated € 100,00 for one group (experienced tutor 1*).

In case you have tutored groups before but you want to attend the assessment meeting again (to refresh your memory for example), you will be compensated € 112,50 for one group (experienced tutor 2*).

If you tutor additional groups in the same period you will be compensated € 100,00 per extra group.

Sometimes amounts differ slightly from what is stated above due to the fact that some courses have one additional session, one session less or different instruction meetings.

Getting credits for your tutor work
It is possible to go for a learning trajectory and earn 3 credits for your tutor work. If you choose this option, you start with making a plan of what skills you want to develop during your tutoring job. After having done an intake with Presentation Skills Coordinator Nienke Woldman, you write this plan in which you define your goals, and the actions you want to undertake to reach these goals. To do so, we ask you to tutor 4 groups – probably spread over a few periods instead of teaching them all simultaneously. Along the tutoring, you reflect on your practices and eventually you hand in a report for which you can get credits in period 6 (under course code ELS56303). If you are interested in this learning trajectory, please contact us, so that we can plan an intake meeting with Nienke Woldman.

Interested? That’s great!

If you are interested in tutoring, please contact us via office.els@wur.nl and send along your phone number. We will scheduele you as a tutor if there are places available or we will put your name on our mailing list. In thas case, we will contact you via email (per period) about the courses we need tutors for. You can unsubscribe from this mailing at any time.

Please note that if you are not a WUR student or soon won’t be a WUR student anymore (due to graduating), you are not eligible to become a tutor as you don't have access to your WUR account, MS Teams or Brightspace anymore.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. We hope to see you as a tutor in one of our courses!

Tutoring in times of Covid19

Our Presentation Skills courses are currently (2021-2022) taught on campus. Courses may shift to an online version if necessary.