Academic Skills Center
Tutoring Services
The Academic Skills Center (ASC) is located in the Learning Resource and Technology Center and offers tutoring services at no charge to students with academic needs. Tutors will be available during the scheduled times in the LRTC. Students may stop in for a quick question or stay the whole time. Tutors will assist when needed and help students gain the study skills required to be successful in class. All tutoring is provided by peer tutors -- students who have completed coursework in the designated academic area. Peer tutors are familiar with course content as well as instructors' styles of delivery.
Please come prepared to a tutor's session and know there may be others using the same tutor. All students are required to turn off phones and respect others in the ASC and the LRTC.
Questions? Contact Erin White, whitee@pinetech.edu or call 320-629-4574.
A schedule detailing hours of availability is posted outside the ASC and below -- follow the link.
Tutoring Services Schedule -- Fall 2009
Academic Skills Center Hours
Mon: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tues: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wed: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thurs: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fri: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Study Guide Resources
-- VARK tips for improving study habits
-- Study Guides and Strategies educational service
-- Study Guide Zone
Focus groups on specific learning styles and study tips are offered each semester. Watch campus monitors for announcements of dates and times.
Topics for study tips include: note-taking, time management, campus resources, test anxiety and memory building.
"Focus on College" seminars
Periodically, PTC staff and faculty hold "Focus on College" seminars -- free seminars/workshops that teach tips about time management, stress management, studying, test-taking, the college environment overall and much more. Additionally, a valuable 68-page bound guide, "Making Your Mark," is given away at the seminars. Watch the hall monitors for information about this valuable event, and don't miss it!
Materials presented at the most recent "Focus on College" seminar may be found here:
-- Presentation
-- Handouts
-- "Making Your Mark" book
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