CALLIDUS-TUTOR’S LEARNING REPORT

Student Union HELGA & HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences

Callidus-tutor’s name
Contact information / e-mail:
Tel.
Student number
Degree Programme and campus (e.g. International Business, Porvoo)
Academic advisor’s name
Guiding teacher’s name
Tutorees (students), topic and date of the peer teaching / Tutoree (student): / Topic: / Year / month:
Hours used for the activities (according to the diary)
Notes by HELGA Tutor Coordinator / Secretary for International Affairs and Tutoring / Report checked (date):
Credits for approval:
Notes by academic advisor / Report accepted (date):
Credits added in Winha:
Academic advisor:

Return the callidus-tutor’s diary and report by e-mail:

Callidus-tutor’s learning report includes two different tasks:

1.Writing Callidus-tutor’s diary (during your activity)

2.Writing the learning report at the end of the activities: ”I as a callidus-tutor”

These tasks help you develop your learning skills and self awareness. Additionally they are a convenient way to give consturctive feedback and development ideas for tutoring. The tasks are returned to the HELGA specialist of guidance to address

1. Callidus-tutor’s diary

Callidus follows one’s activities with a diary. Mark briefly all your activities related to tutoring: training, planning the peer teaching, meetings with the students and the guiding teacher and any other activities related to callidus-tutoring. When the tutoring ends you write a report according to which you will get credits for callidus-tutoring. Credits are admitted with a rate of 1 ECTS / 27 working hours (45 min of teaching counts as one hour of work).

  1. Before a meeting you mark the date, topic and the concrete goals of the meeting to the table.
  1. After the meeting you reflect on how you reached the goals set for the meeting.
  1. The diary must include all the occasions when you have arranged peer teaching sessions or done some other task related to callidus-tutoring. Write all the activities down in a chronological order. When the tutoring ends you write an essay based on the diary.

2. I as a callidus-tutor -essay

The following questions help you consider and report about your learning. Write your answers in an essay format. You may use questions as basis for your pondering, but do not leave them in the text.

Length of the report: 3-4 pages

Font: Times New Roman

Font size: 12

Line spacing 1,5

Margins: 2 cm / each edge

1. DESCRIPTION OF MY TUTORING ACTIVITY

Describe your activities briefly

-When did you start your callidus-tutoring? For how long did you act as a callidus-tutor?

-In which campuses did you do callidus-tutoring?

-What did you do with your tutorees / groups?

2. YOUR OWN GOALS AND THEIR REALIZATION

Consider and tell

-What made you begin callidus-tutoroing?

-What did you want to learn? What other expectations did you have / what did you exept to get?

-How did you succeed in meeting your goals and expectations about callidus-tutoring? What did you learn during callidus-tutoring?

3. ANALYZING YOUR OWN ACTION

Analyze your action as a callidus-tutor

-What kind of learning results did you achieve?

-How do you consider your action with the tutorees? What was good / bad in your own action?

-What was your task and effort?

-What have you noticed to have learned by acting as a callidus-tutor?

-What would you do differently now?

4. PROFESSIONAL READINESS / SKILLS GAINED FROM CALLIDUS-TUTORING

Ponder

-What kind of readiness did you gain from callidus-tutoring considering your future prefessional career?

-How did callidus-tutoring support your professional development?

-How do you think you will take advantage of the skills gained in your professional career?

-What else did you gain for your life and future?

-What would you have missed if you hadn’t participated in callidus-tutoring? Did you learn something you haven’t been able to gain in other courses?

5.SUPPORT GAINED FOR MY ACTIVITY

Consider

-How did the callidus -training support your activity? What kind of readiness did the training give you?

-What other support did you get for your activity? What helped you most in your action?

6. DEVELOPING CALLIDUS-TUTORING

Ponder

-How would you develop the callidus-tutor training and activity?

-What demands improvements in your own degree program /campus or in the whole school?

7. FREE WORD AND FEEDBACK

If you want, you may share some thoughts about callidus-tutoring, student union or HAAGA-HELIA in general.