To add new courses to your repertoire, you need to get a faculty recommendation. Just email the link below to your professors and they can fill out the form online and it comes directly to the learning co-op.
Keep in mind that there is a trickle down effect with the faculty recommendations. So, any courses that you took as part of a consecutive series can be approved by your most recent professor. For example, if you’ve taken Spanish 052, you only need to talk to your professor for Spanish 052 to get approved for 1-52 and not your professors from 1, 2, 51, and 52. Do make sure though that your professor marks off that they approve you tutoring the lower level courses on the form. Also, this only applies for courses that are required to take other, higher level courses. So, for example, getting a recommendation for Bcor 012 does not mean that you can use trickle down to qualify for Bcor 011 because you don’t need to take 11 to take 12.
If the professor that you took the class with is no longer at UVM or you took it at another school, you can talk to the department head instead.
Link to the Faculty Recommendation Form: http://www.uvm.edu/~learnco/sat/facrec/
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Academic Integrity in Tutoring
What is and is not considered ethical in academics can often be a complicated issue. As a tutor, you’re in a position where it’s your job to help your tutees, but there are types of helping that can ultimately create some problems with the Center for Student Ethics and Standards. Aside from the obvious of doing the work for a student, even helping students with graded assignments can often be considered cheating or collusion. So, as a rule, it’s better to avoid offering students any type of help with graded work, and, to protect yourself, it’s important to ask whether or not an assignment is going to be turned in for a grade.
In the rare case that a student’s professor is okay with you helping them with the assignment, you should be in touch with the professor, with the student’s permission, about exactly what type of assistance they are okay with the student receiving.
Similarly, sharing your own old exams from the course can be considered cheating if you don’t clear it with the professor first. The bottom line is that it’s important to be aware of what’s in the Academic Integrity Policy and to be in touch with professors, with the student’s permission, before offering assistance of any kind on graded assignments.
To see the Academic Integrity Policy, follow this link: www.uvm.edu/~uvmppg/ppg/student/acadintegrity.pdf