Tutoring

Every student may face challenges at the start of their studies. There’s no need to worry — JAMKO’s tutors are here to help!

Tutor guidance is peer support, where a student helps a fellow student. The aim is to enable new students to get up to speed with their studies, familiarize themselves with higher education, and ease their transition into student life.

Tutors act as peer guides and supporters for students at the beginning of their studies and along the way. Drawing from their own experience, tutors share knowledge and answer questions that new students may have, and help them connect with each other, their new study environment, and student life in Jyväskylä. Tutor activity is ongoing throughout the year, with a particular emphasis on the start of the academic year in the fall and at the beginning of the calendar year.

Tutoring is managed by:

• Peer tutor responsible (Finnish degrees): tutor(a)jamko.fi
• International tutor responsible: kvtutor(a)jamko.fi
• Advisor, guidance and well-being: ohjaus(a)jamko.fi

Being a tutor

The advantages of tutoring are great, but so is the experience for the tutor. By becoming a tutor a student develops skills valued in working life: leadership skills, problem solving, confidence to appear in public and the ability to deal with different people under varying circumstances. The fact that a student has tutoring experience can be influential in applying for a job. Upon request, the tutors receive a tutor diploma, which is valued by prospective employers. Tutoring is also a study module, so it provides a nice amount of study credits as well.

Tutors represent the student union in everything they do. Tutors also act as important links between the Jamk University of Applied Sciences and its new students. Instructing and guiding new students is communication between the student union and the students. Every tutor gets to know the practices of the student union and JAMK better. Tutors get to network amongst themselves and to establish friendships, which can be life-long, with students of their own field and other fields.

How to become a tutor?

JAMKO recruits new tutors through a separate recruitment twice a year. Tutors are usually selected on the basis of an application form and interviews. Those selected as tutors attend tutor training courses, which provide them with the necessary skills to become a tutor. Without this process, it is not possible to work as a tutor in Jamk.

Follow our communication channels to become a tutor in the next recruitment!