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The Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center Welcomes Faculty and Students Back for Spring 2024

The Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center Would Like to Extend a Warm Welcome to All for the Spring 2024 Semester! The TAAC provides free tutoring to all students (and free coffee and planners, too)! Students work intensively with writing consultants, academic coaches, and content tutors on coursework and academic skills. The TAAC aims to assist students in becoming more independent learners. Our Center houses a full library of Anatomy & Physiology models for use in biology and nursing sessions, and students are welcome to come to the Center to use these models for independent study. During the spring 2024 semester, the TAAC will offer in-person tutoring at Brighton and Downtown and host virtual sessions. We continue to increase the capacity for drop-in tutoring and walk-in sessions, but we do encourage scheduling appointments. Please see the TAAC website for updated protocols on tutoring sessions.  

Students can schedule appointments by logging into their TracCloud profile (monroecc.trac.cloud) through their myMCC account.

  • To book an online or face-to-face tutoring appointment in TracCloud, please reference our How to make a tutoring appointment using TracCloud (Video), created by Lemuel Maldonado, one of the three Coordinators for Course-Based Learning Assistance. In this video, Lemuel shows you how to book a tutoring appointment online and face-to-face. Please stay tuned for the finalized TAAC schedule! 
    • What is an Academic Coach? An academic coach focuses on study skills and strategies that contribute to success in college, including but not limited to time management, study strategies, learning styles, and reading comprehension in any subject. In other words, an academic coach does not focus directly on content—an academic coach instead can help students to become better learners, improve study skills, and enhance planning, to complete assignments. In this way, coaches can help with any subject, since they do not focus on content, but on strategy.  Coaches will lead students to find study skills and learning strategies that can help them succeed in any course. Additionally, our professional coaches are reading specialists and can help students to develop strategies and skills to better understand what they are reading across all subjects. Peer academic coaches focus on how to learn over what to learn and guide students in their development of study plans and learning strategies.
    • What is a Tutor? A tutor serves as a content expert and seeks to foster independent learning while providing content support for a targeted subject. Content tutors will aid with study strategies and learning skills but focus primarily on one or more particular learning objective in a single session to fill learning gaps. Tutors will lead students to find study skills and learning strategies that can help them succeed in a particular course.
    • What Is the Difference between a Tutor and an Academic Coach? View the Academic Coaching Versus Tutoring video to learn more.
    • What is a Writing Consultant? A writing consultant is a writing specialist who seeks to foster the development of independent writing and improve confidence.  Writing consultants are available to assist at any step of the writing process, from brainstorming to final revision and editing, and can help with papers, writing assignments, and presentations across all disciplines. They will help students to select from a wide range of stylistic choices, develop new writing skills, and empower their own unique voice as writers.

In-Class Workshops Now Open for Faculty Booking: The Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center (TAAC) offers in-class workshops, and registration is now open!

  • Faculty will be able to book an Academic Coach or Writing Consultant to lead students through one of our skill-focused workshops.
  • All workshops incorporate interactive activities and/or supplementary handouts and resources.
  • The TAAC can customize any workshop to target an assignment, exam, or content focus through a consultation following booking.
  • We can also provide workshops to help instructors avoid class cancellations; however, protocols stipulate that workshop requests should be made at least 2 weeks in advance, and while we try to accomodate all requests, our ability to honor requests is based on available Center resources.
  • Booking Instructions
    • Go to the TAAC Workshops & Services Bookings webpage.
    • Be sure to click on the (i) icon to read the specific details of the workshop.
    • Fill out your preferred date and time. If no preferred time slots are available, especially for evenings or Saturdays, please email us. We might be able to accommodate you.
    • Fill out the details and additional information section.

For more information, visit our TAAC Academic Workshop website or email Anne Devine (adevine2@monroecccc.edu)

Find the TAAC on Brightspace to Access the TAAC Mathematics Hub, the TAAC Writing Hub, and the TAAC Workshop Hub:

  • In Brightspace, switch the All tab to Student Resources under My Courses.
  • This will bring you to view the TAAC Mathematics Hub where you can find mathematics resources and event information, including supplementary materials for the Understandable Math Sessions. The TAAC Mathematics Hub was developed by Carlo Atene, the Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center Lead Mathematics Tutor. For more information about the materials in the TAAC Mathematics Hub, or to inquire about the Understandable Math Weekly Sessions, please email Carlo (catene@monroecc.edu). 
  • Students and faculty may also access the TAAC Writing Hub for resources to help students write papers across any discipline, and the TAAC Workshop Hub for coaching resources, including time management and study skills and learning strategies. The TAAC Workshop Hub and TAAC Writing Hub also house resources and video supplements for each of our face-to-face, in-class workshops, which faculty can now book. The TAAC Workshop Hub and TAAC Writing Hub were developed by Anne Devine, the Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center Lead Academic Coach, and Jamey Keeton, the Tutoring and Academic Assistance Center Lead Writing Consultant.
  • We are excited to continually add resources to all three of our Learning Hubs.

We look forward to helping your students become more independent, effective learners. Cheers to a successful spring 2024 semester!

Sara Revello
Learning Support Systems
01/22/2024