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Project 1 – internship Final presentation. Jaime Ramirez. Jar83 EGR188 Spring 2010. Math Tutor. Math tutor at Arizona Western College San Luis Learning Center. Time elapsed: January 29, 2010 – Present. Main Goals. Help students pass their math classes Develop more independent students.
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Project 1 – internshipFinal presentation Jaime Ramirez Jar83 EGR188 Spring 2010
Math Tutor • Math tutor at Arizona Western College San Luis Learning Center. • Time elapsed: January 29, 2010 – Present.
Main Goals • Helpstudents pass their math classes • Develop more independent students Secondary Goals • Clarify concepts to students • Introduce rules, theorems and properties to students
How I applied engineering concepts to it? • I optimized the time efficiency of the system. • Request a copy of the classes’ books for tutoring • Move some tutors to the computer lab while the request for computers in the student success center in processed. • Ameliorate the connection student-tutor-teacher • Create a excel spreadsheet that relates the student with their respective teacher and class.
Time efficiency • Problems • There was a time lost at the moment where students came to tutoring and they did not bring a book or notes. • Also, tutoring time was lost when students with online homework asked tutors to go to the computer lab.
How does my contribution improve the system? • Having a copy of the book allows us to minimize the time it takes to start up the tutoring session. • It gives us more examples to tutor from. • By having some tutors in the computer lab, we do not have to waste time going to and coming from the computer lab.
Student-Tutor-Teacher relationship • Problem. • Teachers that give extra credit to students who attend tutoring had to look in the entire sign-up sheet to look for their students.
How does my contribution improve the system? • By having a spreadsheet, teachers can easily identify what students from their classes went to tutoring. • Also, he or she will see how many times the students attended tutoring.