This is the first part of International tutor training slides.

2. Tutoring
0 Tutoring refers to all the activities related to study
guidance
0 Student tutoring specificly refers to students peer
activity
0 Student tutoring is one of the most important forms of
guidance

3. Tutoring as a part of your own
developement
0 Improved life control
0 Timetabling, planning, realistic scheduling
0 Experiences with the students you tutor
0 Personal development
0 Certainty in presentative situations

4. Why Oulu UAS has tutors?
0 Tutors are one of the most important channels that
relay the information from the institution, study
councellors and tutor teachers
0 OSAKO and school specific associations gather
information from tutors and relay it trough them
0 For new students the tutor is a peer you can always
ask advice from

5. What is required from a
tutor?
0 Tutors don’t need to know everything and be
professionals in everything they do
0 Confidence in presentation and good common
knowledge take you a long way. When you know our
institutions and third parties that provide help you
are already a treasury of information for new students
0 The most important thing is to relay information that
is confirmend and that you know is true
0 Therefore ask, if you don’t know  That is true in so
many ways even for a tutor

6. What is required from a
tutor?
0 Natural and active attidude
0 Equal treatment of everyone in the group
0 Keeping calm in situation

7. Tasks of the tutor
0 The most important of the tutor is to make the students
they are guiding a part of their group and create the
group spirit
0 Tutor should always be the person that is easily
approachable
0 Physical presence is really important
0 Actively being with the group makes them active
0 Tutor is a listener and forwads people in need to
professionals
0 Some people need more help that you are able to provide
with your own resources