Tutoring
Tutors can’t do your work for you, but they can help you formulate study approaches that work best for you, enabling you to engage with the content more fully. In doing so, they may read your work for accuracy, help you to use technology more effectively and show you how to use the materials you already have—books, notes, handouts—to excel in your work. The ultimate goal of tutoring is to help you be more independent in your studies.
“I knew how challenging organic chemistry is, so I wanted to help my peers learn the subject and hopefully help them appreciate the subject as much as I did.”
Where and When Is My Tutoring Session?
Counselors
Se can help with MTH 102 through MTH 212, and some upper level courses. In addition to drop-in tutoring hours, he also has appointments available.
Day | Time(s) | Location |
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Tuesday | 11 a.m.–2 p.m. | Seelye 207e |
Wednesday | 11 a.m.–1 p.m. | Seelye 207e |
Thursday | 11 a.m.–1 p.m. and 3–5 p.m. | Seelye 207e |
Friday | 11 a.m.–noon | Seelye 207e |
Cameron can help with statistics courses, in particular with SDS 192, 201, 220, and with the software R, Stata, and Excel. He can also help with econometrics, ECO 220 and ECO 240, as well as with the introductory economics courses ECO 150 and 153.
Stop in during his drop-in hours or make an appointment.
Day | Time(s) | Location |
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Monday | 1–3 p.m. | Seelye 207-D |
Tuesday | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Seelye 207-D |
Thursday | 9–11 a.m. | Seelye 207-D |
Most tutoring begins on Sunday September 8th in the evening.
“I worked as an ONEXSS coach last summer, helping incoming students with precalculus. I enjoyed the process of guiding them step by step, rather than telling them the answers.”
What to Expect from Tutoring
Ideally, rather than bringing just the unsolved homework problems to a tutoring session, the student should bring questions about ideas or terms occurring in the homework. (Preparation of these questions should be a central part of the student’s general preparation for a tutoring session). The tutor’s goal should be to work with the student so that the student can then finish their homework independently.
Contact Spinelli Center for Quantitative Learning
Seelye Hall 207
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
Phone: 413-585-3091 Email: qlctutor@smith.edu
Director: Catherine McCune, Ph.D.
Note: Please include the course and section, the instructor’s name, and the topic with which you’d like help in your email.