The tutor and tutee program is mainly intended for undergraduate students.  Those who have taken a course that they want to teach in their first year and have gotten an outstanding grade (GPA over 4.0) in the course are qualified to be a tutor.  A tutee should be a student who is taking the course in the corresponding semester.  This program is aimed for helping tutees who have difficulties studying certain courses by allowing them to study corresponding courses with those who scored highly in it.  Students are allowed to apply for this program by making a tutor-tutee group themselves.

-Orientation
From 14th of March to 24th of June, the first semester program of this year has a 15 week work period.  The first official event for this program is the orientation.  To get detailed information that is different year to year, students need to come to the orientation.  The orientation will be held on the 23rd of March from 6:00 to 7:00 PM at the Suwon campus and the 24th of March at the same time at the Seoul campus.  In the orientation, tutors and tutees will meet for the first time and they will design and plan how to work together.  They will decide when and where they will meet and which roles each participant will be in charge of.  After students have a learning capability test, the orientation will end.

-How they work
Tutor & Tutee groups should do their tutoring work over ten times and over 15 hours within 4 months.  They are obliged to write an activity report right after every tutoring session.  They must hand in their reports through NAVER cafe.  Besides activity reports, they also need to hand in evaluation reports between the 6th and 22nd of June.  With this, tutors need to submit a final result report and tutees need to submit a review of the program.  Tutors not only tutor but also manage a teaching support fund.  Tutors can receive supporting funds once they hand in activity receipts and demands for payment between the 20th and 24th of June.  Teaching supporting funds will be delivered collectively to the tutors’ bank accounts and the maximum is 100,000 KRW (150,000 KRW once the number of members exceeds 8, including tutors).  As this is a national fund, students are bound to submit activity receipts to receive the funds.

-Benefits of the program
Completion certificates (Non-academic program) will be issued for tutors who actively participate in the program.  Students can get this certificate on GLS by themselves.  By completing non-academic programs, students can accumulate points that can help them acquire school rewards such as scholarships.  Unlike previously when only tutors could obtain benefits, from this semester both tutors and tutees can receive completion certificates and accumulate points.  That said, it is restricted to tutees who have been given an evaluation over 3 points by their tutor and teaching tutor.  On top of this, their work hours will count as school volunteer time which is needed for the Insung-pum graduation requirement.  Students can receive a minimum of 15 hours and a maximum 20 hours of volunteer time as they work.
The evaluation report that tutors and tutees submit is referred to when they are awarded.  Tutors and tutees are awarded according to the sum of the tutor and tutee’s evaluation (40%) and the teaching tutor and CTL evaluation (30%).  First prize tutors will get award certificates and win a prize of 200,000 KRW.  Also, they will get additional points when they apply to be exchange students.  Second prize tutors and tutees will get award certificates and win a prize of 150,000 KRW and 100,000 KRW, respectively.

-Tutoring alteration and withdrawal
It is forbidden to withdraw from the program after a tutoring group has been approved.  There will be disadvantages someone rejoins the program after they withdraw from it.  If a tutor wants to disband their group or enter into another group, they need to submit a disband report or alteration application form to the CTL (ctl_skku@skku.edu).  They also need to submit an alteration application form when they want to let tutees in or out.
Sungkyun Tutoring not only provides an opportunity for deeper understanding of specific subjects, but is also a chance to meet new people and make new bonds.  This is helpful for tutees to lead their studies themselves as well.
-Researcher, Yong Jung Sun
Researcher Yong, Jung Sun is in charge of the Sungkyun Tutoring Program in CLT.
What is the advantage of the points which are given to students when they carry out a tutoring program?
Students can accumulate points whenever they take non-academic programs in school.  If the points are accumulated according to certain standards, the students will have chances to get scholarships.

-What does Sungkyun Tutoring aim to do?
We take a lot of one-sided lectures by professors in the university just like we did in high school.  We concluded that group studies outside the classroom are a way to differentiate what we do in the university from what we did in high school.  What we aim for with Sungkyun Tutoring is not one-sided lectures by the tutors.  A tutor is just a student who studied the same thing earlier and leads the exchange.  A tutor is not there just to deliver knowledge.  We do not want tutees to just passively attend another one-sided lecture.  A lot of tutors say that they realized that they did not know everything about the lectures they attended.  It would be ideal if tutors also learn from the tutees and tutees motivate each other and generate positive influence.  That is where the group study starts.  And tutors say, through group study they experience what it is like to be a leader and learn how a good leader should act.  It is best to lead group studies into active, spontaneous learning.  I think group study is possible outside the classroom.  What you can gain from Sungkyun Tutoring is not only a good GPA, but also new relationships.  It is hard to participate in something in the university without drinking.  I think that it would be a fresh pleasure to meet new people and become friends without involving alcohol.  A lot of tutors and tutees are saying that it was a bit weird at first, but now it is quite fun to discuss and debate about academic issues.

Sungkyun Tutoring is a program recommended for SKKU students who want to achieve a high GPA, build relationships, volunteer in an activity, and make money all at once.  This program usually starts receiving tutor applications two weeks before the semester starts, and recruits tutees on the 2nd week of a semester.  Tutoring for first semester of 2016 has already ended, but if you are interested, please check the application period for the next semester and participate.