Become a faculty tutor!

Each semester, the WRL Center hires adjunct instructors as faculty tutors. If you are interested in tutoring, please email Jason Rivera at the WRL Center Director to receive additional information. Faculty tutors provide tutoring from week 3 through week 15.

Student Services

Tutoring Services

Drop-in tutoring is available after first week of the start of classes. In addition, Instructional Associates are available for 45-minute appointments for students interested in longer sessions. These appointments are offered at specified times and are staggered among the different staff tutors in order to accommodate a variety of schedules. Students may sign up for two appointments per week; however students may only have one tutoring session per day, whether on an appointment or drop-in basis (for a total of three sessions per week).

Requirements for Students Receiving Tutoring

Students are strongly encouraged to have written instruction, either in the form of a handout or specific notes, from their instructors, when they come for tutoring on written assignments.  Please communicate this policy clearly to students if suggesting that they see a tutor.  We are better able to assist students if we know what the professor was looking for when the assignment was first given.

Mandatory Tutoring

As always, mandatory tutoring requirements are not allowed. The WRL Center supports the autonomy and privacy of students seeking tutorial services and has found that these conditions contribute to productive sessions.  Instructors may recommend tutoring and workshops to their students, but the Center cannot accommodate sessions that have been required by the instructor. This includes initialing/signing off on exercises and drafts.

You are welcome to mandate workshops, however, and—as always—you may continue to require lab requirements for instructional software.

Workshops: for busy students

Workshop Wednesdays

Workshops are offered on set topics on two Wednesdays each month from 1:30 to 2:30 pm. Faculty may also request specific workshop topices be addressed on an additional Wednesday. To request a workshop, please email the WRL Center at wrc.tp-ss@montgomerycollege.edu at least two weeks in advance of the schedule date. Workshops will also be offered on the first Saturday of each month, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, to accomodate students whose schedules do not allow them to attend during the week. Students are encouraged to reserve a space in advance by signing up at the WRL Center Front Desk, but drop-ins will be accomodated as space allows. Click here to view our latest schedule.

Workshops: for classes with Portfolio Assessment

Peer Review Portfolio Workshops

Peer Review Portfolio Workshops are offered during weeks 14 and 15 of each semester in lieu of individual tutoring for all portfolio-assessed EN and EL classes (EN001, EN002, EN 101, EN101A, and EL104). 

We do not offer tutoring for students in these classes during portfolio and final assessment, as was decided in the June 2008 meeting between Department course coordinators, Marcia Bronstein, and the WRL Center staff.

Please do not recommend individual tutoring sessions to students enrolled in these courses during these weeks; rather, encourage them to take advantage of the peer review workshops.

Workshops: for classes with in-class writing exams

“How to Ace the In-Class Essay”

We will be offering workshops entitled “How to Ace the In-Class Essay,” during weeks 14 and 15 of each semester in lieu of individual tutoring for all EN and EL classes that have in-class writing exams (EN001, EN002, EN101a, EN101, EL 101, EL102, EL103 and EL104).  This workshop will cover strategies for pacing the writing process, from pre-writing to proofreading, and give tips to alleviate test anxiety. 

Tutoring will not be offered during weeks 14 and 15; however, students will be allowed to ask “quick questions” about specific skills or grammatical structures they may be working on.

In-class Final Writing Assignments

We will not look at final exam writing assignments that have not yet been graded under any circumstances.  We had a problem in the summer with a number of students bringing their essays out of their final exams and into the WRL Center for comment.  In order to “let the portfolio process run its course,” as Joe Couch wrote recently in an email, we have decided to set up this policy.

For additonal information about our services to faculty, please download our latest Guide for Faculty.If you have any questions, please contact the WRL Center Director.

We look forward to working with all of your students this semester and wish everyone success!

WRL Center Staff