What is HKN Tutoring Services?
As a free service to its students, the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science provides one-on-one peer assistance in many basic undergraduate Course 6 classes. Students may request a tutor up until halfway through the term. It may be possible to request a tutor after this point, but likelihood of finding an available tutor is very low. Once a tutor is matched with a tutee, the students arrange mutually convenient hours for tutoring.
Who is encouraged to tutor for HKN?
All tutors are undergraduate or graduate students in the Department. Students who have done well in a class are strongly encouraged to tutor. Without tutors, this program just wouldn't work. Tutors are paid an hourly wage for their services ($9/hr - $11/hr, depending on year). International students on student visas with either RAships or TAships, and any student with full-time TAships are not allowed to tutor for pay in this program. Students may tutor for as few as two hours a week, or for as many as twelve hours.
More information
... Tutoring Guidelines for Tutors
- You are not expected to provide the quality of instruction that a T.A. can, but it is assumed that you know the material well enough so that the student benefits from your efforts.
- It is the student's responsibility to contact the tutor. The tutee is given the tutor's name and email address. Please let the tutoring coordinators know if no one has contacted you within a week.
- Students usually tutor for 2 hours a week per tutee.
- It is expected that you will tutor students one-on-one. If you help two or more students during the same hour, that time will only count as one hour.
- Once you are assigned to help a student, please make an effort to work out a regular schedule quickly. This will enable you to fulfill your commitments despite MIT's demanding routine.
- Graduate students serving as RAs and TAs may not tutor through this program without the permission of their supervisors. In no case should a TA tutor students through this program in the subject in which he or she is TAing. Due to INS regulations, it is impossible for us to pay any foreign graduate students who are working as TAs or RAs.
- You will be paid for tutoring ONLY the students that you are assigned to through the tutor/tutee matching program.
- The best way to contact the tutoring coordinators is by e-mail at hkn-tutoring at mit.edu. Your comments, suggestions, and complaints are welcome.
... Tutoring Guidelines for Tutees
- If available, a tutor is usually assigned within one week after a request has been made; you will be sent the tutor's e-mail address and other information. It is your responsibilty to contact the tutor and arrange a schedule. If you have not heard from anyone within a week, contact the tutoring coordinators so that the problem may be resolved.
- Once you are assigned a tutor, please do make an effort to work out a regular schedule promptly. You will then be able to gain the maximum benefit from the program and help your tutor fulfill his/her commitments despite MIT's demanding routine. The scheduling details are entirely up to you and your tutor. However, just remember to give your tutor plenty of notice if you need extra tutoring on a certain day.
- If you find that you no longer need help for a course, please notify the tutoring coordinators, so that your tutor may be reassigned to another student.
- The best way to contact the tutoring coordinator is by e-mail at hkn-tutoring at mit.edu. Your comments, suggestions, and complaints are welcome.
... Signin to our online tutoring system
... Information about getting paid
- Tutors are paid on a weekly basis
- Fill out an I-9 form with the Student Employment Office (5-119).
- See Patsy Sampson in the course VI administrative office (38-409G) to fill out an activation form
- Pick up your time card every week in the course VI administrative offce (38-409G)
- Drop your time card off in the marked envelope outside the Undergraduate Office (36-476) by Friday at 5:00pm in order to get paid by the following Friday
- Pay for late time cards is NOT guaranteed
Still got questions?
Email us at hkn-tutoring at mit.edu
