Course 2024-2025

Introduction to tutoring practices [FAGRM405]

  • 2 credits
  • 4h+11h
  • 2nd quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

The course aims to introduce students to tutoring practices and to develop in them the essential skills of a tutor, namely: - identifying learning problems - planning individual remedial actions and identifying solutions - effective listening, questioning and clarification - improvising and innovating creative teaching solutions - conveying subject-related principles and facts - understanding how others learn

Content

Theoretical course (4 hrs): introduction to tutoring practices (definition and methods of tutoring, success factors of a tutoring experience, essential skills, etc.) Exercises (11h): integration into a transition tutoring experiment carried out over the last 2 years by the 'Louvain' University Academy and described in the document available at the following address: http://www.fundp.ac.be/recherche/publications/page_view/66429/


Teaching methods

Training in the tutor's essential attitudes and the main dynamics of tutoring. Integration into a tutoring project run by the Académie: transition tutoring.

Evaluations

Rédaction d'un court rapport d'activité en ligne, sur le site dédié à l'expérience de tutorat

Recommended readings

In March 2009, the report commissioned by the King Baudouin Foundation and produced by Marc Romainville and Pascale Lepage was published: "Le tutorat en Communauté française de Belgique. Overview of tutoring practices in the French-speaking Community". This report takes stock of existing tutoring practices in the French-speaking Community, highlights their major impacts and draws conclusions in terms of recommendations for both tutoring operators and decision-makers. - Summary of the report (2 pages) - Full report published on the King Baudoin Foundation website (free download) http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/interfacultaire/det/spu/pu_trans_sec_sup.html

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation

Degree of Reference

Master's Degree