Online learning
Content, methods, and tools you can put to direct use with your work-study learner, available at any time and from any device, along with corrected, annotated case studies.
Diploma program · 100 % online
Tutor
Pass on your craft with method: support a work-study student or apprentice through their integration and skill development, in real work situations. A fully online, diploma-granting program for workplace tutors.
100 % remoteSynodeo diplomaPrepares for RS 551512-month access
Hours, support and price
83 hTotal training time
∞Unlimited e-mail support, included
€400incl. tax, i.e. €33 per month over 12 months
Price subject to a pathway adjusted following the diagnostic interview.
What the price includesUnlimited e-mail support: as many questions as you need on content, deliverables and method, answered within 72 working hours. Your portfolio is read and annotated by a referent, and your final review is held with them. You are never left on your own. Video coaching is not included in this program - that is what makes this price possible. It remains available: a 4-hour package (€300, i.e. +€25/month) can be added at any point.
The promise
What you'll actually be able to do.
By the end of this program, you carry out the tutor's role with the rigor of a solid methodological framework and the precision of a stance that knows when to pass on knowledge and when to step back.
You know how to welcome a newcomer - apprentice, work-study student, intern -, build with them a teaching relationship that respects their pace, organize their progression in coordination with the training center, and assess what they've learned without confusing teaching with imposing. You become a recognized point of reference for the tutoring function within your company, able to explain and defend your coaching choices with the depth that Synodeo's reflective practice provides.
- Prepare and conduct the welcome of a learner into the company.
- Secure the trial period and establish a lasting tutoring relationship.
- Organize a learning progression in coordination with the training center.
- Support the learner over time: maintain presence and motivation, and prevent disengagement.
- Turn work situations into learning situations.
- Guide the learner's reflection on their practice to turn lived experience into competency.
- Assess what's been learned in real work situations and report on it to stakeholders.
Prerequisites
What you need to start
Have 5 to 7 years of professional experience in your field. Work in a context that allows you to host a learner during the program, or plan to within the following year. No academic prerequisites: Synodeo relies on experience and stance, not diplomas.
The program
A path built step by step.
01
Welcoming and integrating
Everything is at stake in the first few days. You learn to prepare for the learner's arrival, to conduct the welcome with attention to the implicit codes and rituals that help a newcomer feel at home, to secure the trial period, and to make integration the foundation of a trajectory that holds.
02
Supporting learning and autonomy
An apprentice doesn't make progress just by watching. You learn to understand the competency framework your learner is working toward, to engage in dialogue with their training center, to organize a progression specific to the company, and then to sustain support over time - regular presence, maintained motivation, disengagement prevented - so that autonomy comes without ever being forced.
03
Assessing in real situations
Teaching is judged by what it leaves behind. You learn to turn a real work situation into a structured learning situation, to guide the learner's reflection on their own practice, and then to assess what's been learned in real context - with the rigor of a grid and the flexibility of professional judgment - and to report on it to stakeholders.
Zoom in on the content
What you work on, module by module.
One example of method and one case-study excerpt per module - taken directly from the program's courses.
01
Welcoming and integrating
Preparing the arrivalWelcoming on day oneFacilitating integration
Method in focus
The relational framework of the first day: introducing yourself as a guide rather than a superior, announcing precise, honored availability slots rather than a façade of availability, explicitly stating the right to make mistakes, and setting a regular weekly check-in right from the welcome.
Case in focus
Five weeks after his apprentice's arrival, everything seems normal on the surface, but the tutor notices discordant signals - lateness, slower work, declined coffee breaks - even as she insists everything is fine. Rather than summoning her formally, he opens up a conversation over an informal coffee and discovers that a curt remark from a colleague made her doubt herself to the point of withdrawing. He reaffirms the right to make mistakes, discreetly addresses the colleague, and builds concrete steps with her to restore confidence before the end of the trial period.
02
Supporting learning and autonomy
Coordinating with the training centerOrganizing the pathwaySupporting over time
Method in focus
The progressive activity plan: ordering assigned tasks from simple to complex, setting SMART goals rather than vague intentions, and raising autonomy in stages - observation, pairing, supervised execution, then autonomy.
Case in focus
Halfway through, an apprentice voices doubts about her career path, even though nothing on paper seemed wrong. Her tutor takes the time to understand rather than react, and discovers a disengagement fed by a lack of visible progress, autonomy, and meaning. He entrusts her with a full, meaningful responsibility, acknowledges a specific piece of progress, and reestablishes a more regular presence - without ever forcing her decision.
03
Assessing in real situations
Using work situationsGuiding reflectionAssessing what's been learned
Method in focus
Guided reflective analysis: having the learner search for answers before settling on conclusions - successes, then difficulties, then possible approaches -, only then supplementing with factual observations, and jointly building a concrete, dated adjustment plan.
Case in focus
After two years of mentoring, a tutor is tempted to draw up a review based purely on gut feeling, so obvious does his apprentice's progress seem to him. He nonetheless builds a summary grid from the evidence accumulated, and has her self-assess before the review meeting. The gap between the two readings is minimal: she proves capable of gauging her own practice, even naming on her own a weakness on one technical point - a competency that the review formalizes and passes on to the training center.
Condensed, anonymized excerpts from the program's case studies - for teaching purposes, not transcripts of real sessions.
How it works
100 % remote, at your own pace - never alone.
You train entirely remotely and at your own pace, with one-year access from enrollment - and you're never alone in it.
Unlimited e-mail support
This program includes no video coaching hours - that is what makes this price possible. You can, however, ask as many questions as you need by e-mail about content, deliverables and method, answered within 72 working hours. Your welcome-and-support portfolio is read and annotated by a referent, and your final review is held with them: you are never left on your own. A 4-hour video package (€300, i.e. +€25/month) can be added at any point.
The welcome-and-support portfolio
In it, you record the real support you provide to a learner - welcome, progression, reviews, doubts included - and draw a reflective analysis from it. This is the material your diploma is built on.
Lived practice
No written exam: what's validated is the way you actually tutor, and your ability to think it through.
Assessment
Validated by your practice, not by an exam.
Continuous validation
Throughout the program, self-corrected exercises mark your progress, and your case studies receive individual feedback. In parallel, your referent reads and annotates your welcome-and-support portfolio as you build it.
Final validation
Over video, before a Synodeo mentor, you present and defend the reflective analysis drawn from your welcome-and-support portfolio - the reasoned account of six months of tutoring carried from welcome to final review, in strict respect of confidentiality.
Diploma & certification
A proven diploma, solid recognition.
At the end of the program, Synodeo awards you its professional diploma. It doesn't certify attendance: it validates competencies actually demonstrated in your welcome-and-support portfolio, tested in real tutoring practice and annotated by your referent.
This diploma is part of a dual-recognition model. On one hand, a professional certification backed by an external professional body, which situates your competencies against industry standards. On the other, a professional diploma awarded by Synodeo, which puts the school's own responsibility behind the quality of your training and assessment.
Synodeo designs its own curricula and trains with full pedagogical autonomy; professional recognition, meanwhile, rests on a third party external to the school. The same rigor runs from the first case study to the final defense.
RS 5515
Moving toward certification
The program is backed by the professional certification for apprenticeship supervisor / tutor competencies, registered with the Répertoire spécifique (RS 5515), and prepares you directly for it. The certification is taken through a partner training organization; the assessment call clarifies the details.
Frequently asked questions
What people often ask us.
Do you need a diploma to become a workplace tutor?
No. The tutoring function rests on professional experience, not on an academic credential. Synodeo requires five to seven years of professional practice and no academic prerequisites. At the end of the program, the school awards you its own Tutor diploma, validated by your real practice.
What's the difference between a tutor and an apprenticeship supervisor (maître d'apprentissage)?
The mission is the same - welcoming, helping progress, and assessing a learner in real work situations - but within different contractual frameworks: the apprenticeship supervisor acts under the apprenticeship contract, the tutor under other forms of work-study programs and internships. The Synodeo program covers both realities.
Can you train in tutoring while working?
That's actually the whole principle. The program is online, at your own pace, and draws directly on the tutoring you carry out in your company: your job isn't an obstacle, it's your training ground.
What if I'm not yet hosting a work-study learner?
The prerequisite is to work in a context that allows you to host a learner during the program, or to be planning to within the following year. The free positioning assessment reviews your situation and the best time to start.