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These guidelines are for student employees working as peer tutors on the Macon campus.  Drop-in Math, Science, Writing, Foreign Language and Multi-Discipline labs are overseen by the Academic Resource Center (ARC), located in the breezeway of the Connell Student Center.

Ethics

Tutors should aim to develop strong tutorial relationships grounded in the following qualities:

• integrity, honesty and openness

• friendly concern and empathy

• respect for and appreciation of differences

• respect for appropriate confidentiality

• understanding of position responsibilities and limitations

Peer tutors are employees of the ARC and share our mission to help tutees learn how to learn, not to do their work.  Tutors never promote or condone cheating or plagiarism in any form.

The following code of ethics provides guidelines for professional behavior and suggest methods for preventing interpersonal problems.  A thoughtful study of this code of ethics will help the tutor learn how to identify, respond to and avert situations that might otherwise prove problematic.

National Association of Tutorial Services Tutor Code of Ethics

1. Subject proficiency and knowledgeability have top priority in my task as tutor.
2. My major motivation is building the student's self-confidence.
3. My student deserves and will receive my total attention.
4. The language my student and I share must be mutually understandable at all times.
5. I must be able to admit my own weaknesses and will seek assistance whenever I need it.
6. Respect for my student's personal dignity means I must accept that individual without judgment.
7. My student will constantly be encouraged but never insulted by false hope or empty flattery.
8. I will strive for a mutual relationship of openness and honesty as I tutor.
9. I will not impose my personal value system or life style on my student.
10. I will not use a tutoring situation to proselytize my personal belief systems.
11. Both the student and I will always understand my role is never to do the student's work.
12. I count on my student to also be my tutor and teach me ways to do a better job.
13. I will do my best to be punctual and keep appointments, not only out of courtesy but as an example for my student to follow.
14. I will maintain records, lesson plans and progress data as expected and required.
15. I will do my best to stay abreast of the current literature about tutoring as it relates to my work.
16. Good tutoring enables my student to transfer learning from one situation to another.
17. Making learning real for the student is what tutoring means, and is an important part of my goal.