Efaw Center Peer Academic Liaison​/Peer Tutor

Job no: 521570

Work type: On Campus

Location: Normal, Illinois

Title: Efaw Center Peer Academic Liaison/ Peer Tutor

Employee Classification: Student Help Regular

Division Name: Academic Affairs

Department: Dean of Education

The Larry and Barbara Efaw Center for Educator Excellence supports education students and alums in their development as excellent educators across the educator lifespan. The Efaw Center provides individualized attention, focused learning communities, and event programming for all education students. The Efaw Center acknowledges that barriers to academic success can be addressed by proactively offering a holistic approach to support services.

Further, the Efaw Center embraces ISU values related to equity, diversity, access and belonging (EDAB) and is involved with promoting these campus and college initiatives in the center and through our collaborations. Learn more about the Efaw Center on our website.

Peer Academic Liaisons (PALs) provide individual, small-group tutoring, and licensure exam preparation workshops on a weekly basis for upper level education coursework and licensure exam preparation at Illinois State University.

We are seeking tutors in Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education, Special Education Middle Level Education, and Mathematics who can support students with lesson planning, interpreting and responding to instructor feedback, and licensure exam preparation. We are currently seeking to hire tutors for the Fall 2026 semester. We are also building an applicant pool. Applications in the pool will be reviewed on an ongoing basis when there is an increase in demand.

While the main responsibility is direct student support in the areas outlined above, there will be other tasks as assigned by graduate assistant supervisors and the Director of the Efaw Center for Educator Excellence to support Efaw Center programming.

Students will complete the following tasks:

• Use Microsoft products (Teams, Outlook email, calendar, Excel), scheduling program, and other technologies required to complete work tasks.
• Keep correct notes from tutoring sessions in a secure location.
• Gather student feedback, discuss with supervisor, respond in a manner that demonstrates a positive growth mindset.
• Attend scheduled meetings.

The PAL provides help tailored to each student's needs, so they must exhibit an equity oriented and inclusive disposition, be friendly and open to addressing students by public pronouns and preferred names, be punctual, desire to be helpful, and must be able to communicate effectively in spoken and written English and generally exhibit competence and excellence in the Pillars of Professional Excellence.

The PAL understands and supports the Efaw Center mission, so they must exhibit qualities of a person who works well as a member of a team, values transparency, open communication, pro-active problem solving, humility, punctuality, and respect for self and others as demonstrated through how they present themselves and address their supervisors, co-workers, and students they serve.

Student employees are eligible to participate in the University’s 403(b) Plan. More information can be foundhere .

$15/hour

• Proficient in the area in which the student desires to tutor and be able to convey that knowledge clearly via the spoken and written word.
• Priority consideration will be given to those who can support students in high demand content areas (e.g., Elementary Education and Mathematics and general Lesson Planning).
• The ability to tutor across multiple courses (e.g., Elementary Education and Mathematics) is preferred.

5-10 hours per week.

9am-7pm Monday-Thursday and 9am-5pm Friday in the Efaw Center (DEG 18).

Required Friday morning staff meetings 9am-10:30am

Must be able to complete the following with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Effecti…