Tutoring
The Official Name of the Tutoring Center @ WSU
What is the Tutoring Center?
These students can book a coaching session at the Course Achievement Center.
What are All Students?
This common myth suggests that only students who are failing need tutoring.
What is "Tutoring is only for struggling students"?
Building on WSU Campus that houses most of the Support Services.
What is Parenzo?
This academic hack can help you earn participation points, get recommendation letters, understand assignments better, and feel more connected to your courses.
What is building a healthy relationship with your professors?
The Subjects You DO Not Use the CARE Ctr Tutoring for
What are MATH & WRITING?
There are five of these people on Campus to guide students in the Course Achievement Center
Success Coaches
This myth incorrectly assumes that having an academic coach means a student is not intelligent enough to succeed on their own.
What is "Having an academic coach means I'm not smart enough"?
This campus resource is in Scanlon and offers mental health support, counseling, crisis intervention, and well-being programming.
What is the "Counseling Center"?
Successful students often use this strategy at the start of the semester to identify due dates, exams, projects, and when they should begin working on them.
What is mapping out coursework and creating a semester plan?
The platform you book your Tutoring Appt through.
What is WSU360?
3 Actions Success Coaching Can Help Students Improve Upon.
What are Increasing Your Grades, Time Management, Study Habits, Wellness, Goals, Professional Skills, Resources, Limiting Beliefs, Networking, or Financial Literacy?
This misconception claims that tutors simply provide answers instead of helping students learn.
What is "Tutors just give students the answers"?
An office for students to explore academic opportunities, to drop in or schedule an appointment to receive academic advisement or help with course registration.
What is the Office of Academic Advising?
These free campus resources can help with writing papers, solving math problems, understanding course content, and improving study skills.
What is using a tutor?
Grade you need to have in a course to become a paid Peer Tutor?
What is a B+?
Students who are required to work with a coach 2x a month in order to register for their classes the next semester?
What are Students on Academic Warning?
This myth leads students to believe they should handle every academic challenge by themselves without asking for support.
What is "I must figure everything out on my own"?
This resource provides support in stabilizing housing, addresses food insecurity, and other basic needs by connecting students to financial, academic, and social-emotional resources.
What is FACES?
This study technique encourages students to work in focused bursts, often 25 minutes at a time, followed by short breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Method?
Joseph Seal is the Coordinator of this Tutoring program at WSU.
What is the "Tutoring Center"?
This Dept of Higher Ed coaching program is by invitation-only for select incoming freshmen.
What is Achieve to Succeed (formerly Rise to Success)?
Tutoring and academic coaching help students build serious skills to become this.
What are "stronger, more independent learners & thinkers"?
This resource provides support in figuring out your future, internships, skill development, resume writing, interview skills, networking, and job searches.
What is the Career Center?
This note-taking system divides your paper into cue questions, notes, and a summary section to improve learning and test preparation.
What is the Cornell Note-Taking Method?