Greetings,
University Students are invited to become engaged in the following specific activities between the hours of 7:30-12:30, M-F, unless noted differently.
Please note: you will not be allowed to enter the Center for Observation/Participation/Interaction/Volunteering unless you arrive with your valid University ID (not a driver's license). Your ID will be matched to the roster which your professor has sent to us in advance. You must also, when initially arriving to observe/participate/interact/volunteer bring us our copy of your signed and dated Observation/Participation/Interaction/Volunteering Agreement.
Below are the instructions you need to follow in order to sign up for individual Observation hours.
Please note: The procedures for Participation/Interaction/Volunteering experiences are different from those of students who are observing. Your professor must contact us to work out the details of the type of experience they would you like you to have. We then will negotiate with our Supervisors --as different types of tasks require different levels of sophistication, children in all age groups may not be the answer to your need. We will get to your professors to let them know the hours within our 7:30-12:30 framework which would allow for the availability of potential access to children. After you have been given agreeable time frames for your type of project, you may then go into TutorTrac to book appointments during the time frames you have been alerted to by your professor.
Observation hours can be scheduled by you directly, through a computer based appointment
system entitled TutorTrac.
Please make sure the following steps have been completed before attempting to schedule
your observation hours:
- Your Professor must submit their class roster and syllabus to University Child Care. (Your name will not be in the TutorTrac system to allow you to book an appointment unless this step has already been accomplished.) Our fax number for your professor to send such information to us is 410-704-3771, or they can send by attachment to either Marie Skeeters mskeeters@towson.edu; or Harriet Douthirt hdouthirt@towson.edu
- Once your course name and number arrive and has been entered into
our computer program, you will be uploaded into the TutorTrac system.
Please note: There are many students attempting to fulfill some type of academic requirement through University Child Care. While you are waiting to be uploaded into TutorTrac take the time to read through the "Observer's Agreement"
3. At the very bottom of the Observer's Agreement fill in:
Course Name
Course Title
Course Section
Professor's Name
Professor's E-mail Address
Semester & Year
Your Printed Name
Your Email Address
Phone number w/voice mail option
4. When finished, click Submit
5. Print out the page that you submitted. Be sure to bring this Observer Agreement the
first time you come to observe at the Center.
Signing Up For Observation Hours
1. Go back to http://www.towson.edu/daycare and click on:
https://achieve.towson.edu/TracWeb40/Default.html
(written in blue under # 1).
2. Tutortrac
Fill in your Towson User Name and Password. (This is the same user name and password you use to access your Towson email.)
3. Click Login
4. Click Go To… (Top, Middle of the page)
5. Click Make Appointment (Drop down bar)
6. Go to Select a Center: Choose Student_Daycare
7. Go to "Look for Tutors with Specialties" in the following selected areas choose:
DAYCARE
8. Fill in Available from Date to Date. (You can search for a specific date, or type in a range so that you can see what is available for several weeks.)
9. Under "Type", choose Individual
10. Click search
11. Under search results, pick the classroom you would like to observe in and find the specific date and time you want, and then click on the time under availability.
12. Click on the correct start type you want:
Time:______ Duration(hours): 1
You may only sign up for 1-hour increments at a time. However, you can go back and make another appointment for that same day, with different hours (back-to-back hours) (For example, if you want to observe from 7:30 am to 9:30 am, you have to sign up from 7:30 am to 8:30 am, and then go back and search for that day again, and sign up for 8:30 am to 9:30 am).
13. Click "Save Appointment"
Note: Sometimes people have trouble signing onto Tutortrac from their dorm, and also from their personal computer, so you may have to try it from the Cook Library or the Hawkins Hall Computer lab.
Once the program enters your appointment, you will receive an e-mail confirmation at your Towson University e-mail account.
Feel free to contact us with questions: Tia Manning tmanni2@students@towson.edu. Thank you.
