Peer Coaching

Peer Coaches are UMaine students just like you! All Peer Coaches can support you during your time at UMaine and help you navigate your transition to college. We also have three distinct “branches” of Peer Coaching, which include Academic Coaching, Financial Coaching, and Scholarship Coaching. You may choose to work with a Coach to help plan out assignments, search for scholarships, set financial goals, design a resume, or something else!

Peer Coaching Team 2024-2025 and Peer Services Coordinator, Nicole (at our year-end celebration! 🎳)

Student Testimonials

Interested in partnering with a Peer Coach? Speak with your TRIO SSS Advisor or email um.sss@maine.edu

Academic Coaching

An academic peer coach trained to help you reach academic success, whether this be improving your general study skills to earn better grades or determining strategies for helping you prepare for class or approaching a professor during their office hours. Some areas our academic coaches can work on with you:

  • Goal setting and progress monitoring

  • Time/self-management and prioritization

  • Organization

  • Textbook reading strategies

  • Note-taking methods

  • Memorization techniques

  • Test preparation and post-test analysis

  • Breaking down large projects and assignments into manageable chunks

  • Strategies for maintaining focus and attention during lectures and independent study

Peer Coaching Team in 2023-2024.
Peer Coaching Team 2023-2024