Join Our Staff

Thanks for your interest in joining the TLC staff!

We offer study groups for a large variety of introductory courses across all three colleges, staff math help sessions for Calculus I-III and Statistics, and offer one-on-one tutoring appointments in some introductory STEM courses. You may apply to be a study group facilitator or math help session leader, and may have the option of one-on-one tutoring depending on your content area. You may work in any course for which you qualify (by having earned an A- or above). To join our staff, students must either be nominated by or have a recommendation from at least one professor in the relevant content area.

All TLC staff members will attend a weekly staff meeting to progress through our staff curriculum, which is based on the International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) standards for excellent college tutor training programs around the globe. All staff begin at $11/hour; pay rates and autonomy increase at each staffing level.

Please email learning@bucknell.edu with any questions.

Join our staff (Applications are posted 4-6 weeks before each semester ends.)

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Study Groups Program

TLC study groups provide meaningful and efficient mechanisms for learning; they can help students keep up with material, actively review and study and engage with diverse perspectives. Your group will meet every week for 90 minutes at a time that you choose. Groups are heterogeneous but organized by professor; any student enrolled in a particular professor's section of a course served by the program is eligible to join a group. You will facilitate group members working together to clarify course material, engage in deep processing techniques for learning and active problem-solving. There may be some options to co-facilitate occasionally. You can lead more than one group and/or lead in one or more subjects per term.

Study group course coverage may vary based on staffing.
Recent covered courses have include

ACFM 104
ACFM 203

ANOP 102
ANOP 202

ARBC 101
ARBC 102
ARBC 103

BIOL 203
BIOL 204

CHEM 203
CHEM 205
CHEM 211
CHEM 230
CHEM 231

CHIN 101

CSCI 203
CSCI 204

ECEG 100

ECON 101
ECON 202
ECON 203

ENGR 229
ENGR 239

GEOL 203
GEOL 204

GREK 101

GRMN 101

ITAL 101
ITAL 102

JAPN 101

LATN 101

LING 105
LING 110

MATH 192
MATH 201
MATH 202
MATH 211
MATH 212
MATH 216

MECH 213
MECH 220

PHIL 103

PHYS 211
PHYS 212

The most up-to-date list will be online at my.bucknell.edu/StudyGroups when registration and groups are active.

Tutoring Program

TLC tutoring offers assistance to students seeking extra help in some introductory courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. New staff who wish to tutor must also either lead a study group or serve as a math help session leader in order to ensure adequate student contact hours to progress through our staff curriculum.  You will be assigned to tutor in the same content area as your study group or help session.  Tutors are paid for 30 minutes of prep time a week, as well as for all booked appointments. You will schedule your own availabilities, based on guidance from TLC staff. In general, we expect tutors to maintain a consistent weekly schedule throughout the semester.

Courses covered by tutors include:

BIOL 121
BIOL 122
BIOL 203
BIOL 204
CHEM 105
CHEM 203
CHEM 205
CHEM 211
CHEM 212
CHEM 230
CHEM 231
MATH 192
MATH 201
MATH 202
MATH 211
MATH 216
PHYS 211
PHYS 212