What is CLASS Tutoring?
Course-Linked Academic Study Sessions (CLASS) Tutoring is when a trained peer tutor regularly attends a course in order to prepare to provide up-to-date targeted support for a specific class for a specific instructor. CLASS Tutors act as a model student during lectures, taking detailed notes and completing all reading assignments, to help demonstrate ideal behaviors for a successful student. They then host out-of-class study sessions to help teach students not just 鈥渨hat to learn鈥 but 鈥渉ow to learn鈥 in that particular course. Additionally, CLASS Tutors generate collaborative activities in order to get students working together in small groups, building independence and self-learning.
How is CLASS Tutoring different from Supplemental Instruction?
Supplement Instruction (SI) is a peer-led support program created at the University of Missouri-Kansas. CLASS Tutoring follows many of the principles of SI while incorporating strategies from the College Reading and Learning Association鈥檚 (CRLA) International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) and 91社区鈥檚 own academic community. In short, CLASS Tutoring takes the best of two great programs and brings them together with our own unique spin.
How is CLASS Tutoring different from Small Group Tutoring?
In addition to CLASS Tutoring, UTS provides scheduled small group tutoring. You may be asking yourself, how do these two services differ? Small group tutoring is subject-based and question-driven. This means that a peer-tutor took the course at 91社区, maybe with your instructor and maybe with a different instructor, and offers to help answer questions that students have regarding the course material on a scheduled basis. CLASS Tutors are actively taking the class alongside of students. They have done this before but they are being refreshed with up-to-date information of exactly how the class is running this semester, not recalling from last year. CLASS Tutors also spend a significant portion of their time planning collaborative activities for students to do together. It鈥檚 not question-driven, where students ask questions and we help answer them, instead it is collaborative learning that is activity-based and focused on getting students to acquire knowledge independently and as a group.
Which courses do you offer CLASS Tutoring for?
For Fall 2026, we offer CLASS Tutoring in the following courses:
- BIOL 113 - Professor Marcus
- BIOL 114 - Professor Armstrong
- MATH 147 - Professor Chazal
- PSYC 111 - Professor Altman
- PSYC 111 - Professor Merriwether
- PSYC 111 - Professor Race
- PSYC 220 - Professor Merriwether
- PSYC 243 - Professor Lancaster
- PSYC 243 - Professor Tkacikova
- PSYC 243 - Professor Westerman
How do I sign up?
CLASS Tutoring sessions are walk-in. There is no sign-up required!
Information regarding your CLASS Tutoring sessions will be announced in class, may be on your syllabus, and will be posted in Brightspace announcements. You can also go onto B-Successful to see the schedule and sign up for email and text message reminders.