Tutoring
Tutoring in Oulu UAS
Student tutoring in Oulu UAS is coordinated by the student union of Oulu UAS (OSAKO). Student tutoring is one part of study counseling and it focuses on engaging students into their studies and on making studying in Oulu UAS more enjoyable.
OSAKO trains new tutors every year to guide new degree and exchange students. Student tutoring is planed and developed in OSAKO’s Tutor Team in which tutor correspondents attend every month. Students who participate in tutoring get credits, unforgettable experiences and new friends. So join in!
Tutoring in Oulu UAS
In student tutoring, students work as a peer counselor to other students. Student tutoring is most active in the beginning of the studies when peer counselors, who are called tutors are receiving new students during their first school days. Tutors work together with the staff of Oulu UAS who are responsible of study counseling. Tutors bring students point of view to study counseling by their experience of studying in university of applied science, of their school and it’s customs and of student life. Tutor works by his/her experience and the strength of student tutoring is that tutor and student share the same language.
The tutors who tutor Finnish degree programs are called basic tutor “perustuutori” or just tutor “tuutori”. Their most important task as a tutor is to help the students they tutor to group, make Oulu UAS familiar to them and help them in problems and questions concerning studying.
The tutors who tutor international exchange and degree students are called international tutor “kv-tuutori”. Their most important task as a tutor is to make Oulu, life and studying in Finland and especially in Oulu UAS familiar to the international exchange and degree students.
In every school of Oulu UAS works one or several tutor correspondent. In some schools there is one correspondent for basic tutors and one for international tutors. Correspondents usually are members of the board in school-specific associations. Tutor correspondents work as a contact person to schools tutors and they coordinate student tutoring in school with the schools Study Counselors. Tutor correspondents also participate in Tutor Team as the representative of their school.
More information from: board member Pauli Tavasti (tel 050 563 2068) and Secretary of Educational affairs Jaana Immonen (tel 050 581 4934)
You can ask about tutoring also from your schools tutor correspondent. You can find the contact information of your schools tutor correspondent from the Tutor Teams page.
Becoming a tutor
Becoming a tutor
Every year we need new volunteers to become a tutor. Everyone who studies in Oulu UAS can apply in tutor training. Tutor recruiting is held every year in February-March. New tutors are trained in April and after the training tutors sign in a tutor contract.
Tutors work term is one academic year. In return tutors can apply for credits. Tutors also get a tutor t-shirt and tutor badge, which are a sign for new students. OSAKO arranges a Christmas party and a picnic for tutors in the ends of academic terms.
You can find the guides for tutors in Materiaalipankki.
Credits from tutoring
In Oulu UAS student who works as a tutor can have credits from tutoring. There are two courses in student tutoring, Fundamentals of Tutoring “Vertaisohjauksen perusteet” for the tutors who work with Finnish degree students and International tutoring for the ones who work with international exchange and degree students. These courses are part of Free-choice studies.
If you have any questions, please contact the Student Union.
More information about credits, courses and granting the credits can be asked from OSAKO’s Secretary of Educational Affairs Jaana Immonen (tel 050 581 4934.
Training
International tutor training 2011
International tutor training 2011 was held as an evening course in April. 31 new international tutors were trained. Signing in for tutor training 2012 begins in February 2012.
Basic tutor training 2011
Basic tutor trainings 2011 were held as an evening and weekend courses. 85 new basic tutors were trained.
Signing in for tutor training 2012 begins in February 2012.
Tutor team
Tutor Team is one of OSAKO’s teams which handles matters concerning tutoring in Oulu UAS, plans tutor training and discusses current tutor issues.
As a Tutor Teams chairman is OSAKO’s member of the board who is responsible in tutoring. As a secretary of the team is OSAKO’s Secretary of Educational Affairs. Regular members of Tutor Team are tutor correspondents but everybody interested in tutoring are welcome. Tutor Team gathers ones in a month at OSAKO’s office.
You can ask more information about Tutor Team from your school’s tutor correspondent.
Tutor team 2011
Next Tutor Team meeting is in autumn 2011.
SCHOOLS TUTOR CORRESPONDENTS (Add to the end of username @students.oamk.fi to send e-mail)
School of Music, Dance and Media
Tuomas Paloniemi | m9patu00
School of Business and Information Management
Viivi Leino | k9levi00
Sami Siuvatti | k9sisa00| international tutors
School of Renewable Natural Resources
Kimmo Pennanen | l9peki00
Liisa Malmivirta | l8mali00| international tutors
Oulainen department of health care
Sanna Eilola | h9rasa00
Raahe school of engineering and business
Teemu Torvikoski | r9tote00
Pengfei Zhang | r8zhpe00 | international tutors
Riikka Hänninen | rhanninen| international tutors
School of Social and Helath care
Virpi Pitkänen | o9pivi00
Marjukka Itkonen | o8itma00
School of Engineering (Oulu)
Jonna Herva | t7hejo00
Ossi Hakala| t9haos00 | international tutors
Tutor's memo
What tutors should remember to go through with new students.
STUDY COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Introduce yourself
• Tell about yourself (when have you started your studies, your degree program, hobbies etc.)
• Tell about your duties as a tutor
Getting familiar with group/people
• Changing important contact information (tell your own contact information and collect info from your group/exchange students)
• Important e-mail lists
• Arrange tutor meets with your group/exchange students
• Where is everyone from, studying- and working history and experiences, hobbies etc.
• Getting to know each other with plays and games
Physical study environment
• Important contacts in school and their contact information (e.g. Study Counselor, ADP-support, teacher tutors)
• Locations of all schools in Oulu UAS
• Getting familiar with new school/physical study environment (don’t try to explain every detail from every place, in the beginning most important thing is to find them)
+ Library, ADP-classrooms, Study Counselor’s office, ADP-support, classrooms for working in groups, student affairs office, restaurants, cafeterias, places for smoking, toilets, office of school-specific student association, notice boards, copying machines
STARTING STUDIES IN OULU UAS
Guiding to open the idea of your schools timetables/schedules, personal study plan = PSP
• Where to find classrooms/auditoriums, when and where to eat, what all the abbreviations means
• PSP (if someone doesn’t know yet why to do it and where to get help with it)
How to proceed on student’s path
• Where and how to get information about studies
• Introduce the studying possibilities in Oulu UAS (make this very clearly and arrange time enough)
• To pick up courses (which they have to accomplish and what and where they can choose)
To study at Oulu UAS
• Absence practices, courses, exams, vacations, enrolling for courses, enrolling for exams, how to raise grades, copying material with machines, copy cards, passwords in different systems and domains, important Internet actions
• Studying- and teaching methods
UAS terminology
• Teacher tutor, student tutor/peer tutor/tutor, international tutor, (ECTS-) credit, school-specific student association, PSP, portfolio etc. (Make sure that everyone is familiar with these terms, prepare to explain about these things.)
LIFE AS STUDENT
Student card
• How to get one, where to get one
• Offices and locations of OSAKO and field-specific student associations
• How to get student discounts before the card arrives (e.g. Kela student meal subsidy card)
+ Student restaurants and where they locate
Financial aid for students
• Make sure that everyone got even some kind of incomes to live with
+ Health care and welfare services
Living in Oulu/Oulainen/Raahe
• Does a student have a roof on top of his/her head
• Guide to find an apartment if student doesn’t have one
STUDENTCITY AND SPARE TIME ACTIVITIES
Traffic
• Busses and traveling (discounts, bus cards)
• Railway station, airport
Important offices/places
• Kela’s office, PSOAS, train- and bus stations, student health services
+ Students’ activities in Oulu UAS/schools
+ Sports services/places, movie theaters, restaurants/bars/coffee houses
+ Locations, activities and services of field-specific student associations
+ Activities and services of student union OSAKO