As a complement to your regular lessons we are able to offer a series of extra practice sessions in the lab (a.k.a. “tutorías”) that we call "appointments", precisely because in order to attend these sessions you need to book an appointment, as you do when you have to go to the doctor’s.
Appointments are optional and independent from your lessons. You are under no obligation whatsoever to attend them. What's more, the content you cover and the extra practice you get will not be evaluated, so this will not negatively impact your performance or marks in your regular Lab class. However, appointments are highly recommended since you get lots of extra practice supervised by a phonetics specialist.
In order to put your name down for an appointment you have to follow these steps:
- First you need to consult the charts and posters with the possible timetables we offer.
- Once you’ve checked the appointments available, decide which ones of the many being offered fit your own timetable.
- Once and only once you’ve made up your mind about when you can come, can you write your name down on the Google Sheet we share each week. Appointments have a limited capacity and operate on a “first come, first served” basis, so sometimes they get booked up and your name cannot be added on that list.
- You can only make “individual” appointments for a single session. You cannot enrol for the same time for the whole year (eg: “every Monday at 10:00 until the end of the year”). This is to make sure that everybody can have access to the different availabilities. You have to make independent appointments for every time you want to come.
- If you have made an appointment, but later you discover that for some reason you cannot make it, you will need to delete your name from the the appointment Google Sheet. This is extremely important so that onother student may take up the slot you've just freed.
- You have the right and the privilege to make use of these extra meeting, but once you have made an appointment you have the obligation to attend it. If you are absent to more than 2 (two) appointments you have booked without previous cancellation, you will be suspended for a month.
Through this system we seek to foster responsibility towards your own learning process and concern about your fellow students and your teachers.