Peer Tutor: Intermediate
Badge awarded to
Luckshetha Vimalesan
Issued on 13 Nov 2025 by
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
The Learning Centres’ mission is to provide students with a range of skills and strategies that encourage learning excellence and promote holistic development. This is achieved through outstanding programming and exceptional services based on general, complementary, integrated, and embedded supports to foster student success, program completion and a desire for continuous lifelong learning.
Peer tutors are an integral part of the Learning Centre approach to helping student understand and complete assignments using one-to-one or small group tutoring in a range of writing, math, and content areas, along with peer-based advice on effective study skills and learning strategies.
Our online tutoring program offers academic writing help for students, from home, work, or school. Peer tutors apply, meet basic criteria and receive training and development to support the skills needed to provide this service.
Issuer
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
tlcommons@kpu.ca
Criteria
All of the following learning objectives are assessed through activities and documentation and are both formative and summative in nature.
Level II Intermediate - Completion of the following competencies
Fundamentals Learning Objectives
- Practise Intercultural Communication
- Manage Personal Stress
- Evaluate Tutees’ Needs
- Use Socratic Questioning to Promote Critical Thinking
- Tutor in Group Environments
- Discuss Key Strategies for Academic Success
- Manage Difficult Tutoring Situations
Integration Learning Objectives
- Follow Learning Centres Procedures
- Continue Tutor Certification Process
- Complete Tutor Excellence and Continuous Improvement Inventory (TECII) and Debrief with a Learning Strategist
- Discuss Tutor’s Legal Responsibilities for FIPPA , Human Rights and Harassment
Issues
- Discuss Issues of Academic Honesty (Cheating & Plagiarism)
- Analyze Tutor Ethics in Action
- Revise Session Plans and Document the Tutor Processes
- Utilize Presentation Skills (use scripts for class visits)
- Create Reflective Journal Entries on Tutoring Practices
- Self-Evaluate, Receive Tutee and Other Feedback, Create Semester Goals
Tutoring Learning Objectives
- Conduct 25 hours of Tutoring Sessions at Level II
