A Tutor's Checklist

• Make yourself available. Arrange regular meeting times or ask your students to arange tutorials by e-mail, or to reserve a tutorial slot on a timetable grid pinned up outside your office. Tell your tutorial students how to contact you in an emergency.
  
• As a very rough guide, you should expect to spend about
• two hours per term per first year tutee
• one hour per term per second, third or fourth year tutee
  
• Tutors to first-year students see them more frequently, usually in their groups of four on a weekly basis, but also allow some time to meet them individually if they request it or if you think they are struggling.
  
• Keep yourself informed of the courses your students are taking, and of their progress in supervisions and assessed work. Offer advice where appropriate.
  
• Keep your 'Tutor's Record Forms' up-to-date, and make them available to follow-on or stand-in tutors. Copies of important documents (e.g. written references) should be kept in students' files in the Student Administration Office (Room 56), so that a reference can be provided if needed when you are away.
  
• Be available to see your students on the first day of each term, and during the registration and deregistration days.
  
• When a student is ill or for any reason unable to study, insist on them getting a medical note signed by a GP or some appropriate written evidence and give it to the Undergraduate Secretary.
  
• Seek help if you cannot deal with a student's enquiry or problem. The Undergraduate Secretary (Hazel Dixon) can answer many questions about the Undergraduate Programme. Other people to consult are: your mentor (if you have one), the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Dave Wood), the Department's Senior Tutor ( (Peter Walters), the Chair (Colin Sparrow)
  
• Finally, make tutoring an enjoyable experience for you and your students.