REZA- Roles, Responsibilities, Ethics

Adherence to these items would promote successful tutoring because it would show consistency within the CATS Lab because all tutees would know what to expect from each tutor. Also, it would promote successful tutoring because it supplies you with all of the basic knowledge and skills that you will need to apply to your tutoring session. It does not leave any guess work for you and you will also know exactly what you should and should not do. The items that I think are the most important are #1 and #4. #1 is important because when a person asks for help, they may already feel ashamed and if you are judging them, then it can cause them to feel bad about themselves and could cause detrimental damage to their self-esteem. #4 is important because if you are too ashamed yourself to let that person know that you are not sure of the answer, you could cause them to get the answer wrong on a test or to go on throughout life thinking that a certain thing that you told them was correct. It is important to earn trust from your tutee and this would eliminate that trust if they found out that what you said was incorrect and you told them anyway. If I were to add something to my own personal code of conduct, it would be to keep my personal issues at home. I do not think it would appropriate to talk to your tutee about your personal problems for various reasons, but the main one would be because you are there to be teaching them about an academic subject, not your personal business.