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...beauty of volunteering is that there are lots of different opportunities," says Mary Louise Piret, bilingual special education teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. She points out that the high school alone offers over 250 courses, and Harvard students help out in a wide variety of them...
Teachers agree. "I desperately need them [volunteers,]" says Piret. In past years, the Rindge teacher has had volunteers from the Divinity School and undergraduate tutors from PBH. She is currently working with a Harvard sophomore in one of her bilingual education classes. "The situation I'm in requires each student getting individual attention. If I can handle the most difficult children and give one or two to volunteers, the load is off me," she says...
...Piret calls the tutoring experience "a learning process for everybody." Like Clemons, she says she tries to talk a lot with the tutors so that they feel as if they are contributing something to the classroom...
...Piret, a Cambridge resident, agrees that tutoring creates positive ties between the University and the community. She says, "I think the tutoring programs are good PR for Harvard. I think [Harvard] should help out as part of its role in the community...
Whitman Hall and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Paula Hajar of Jordon W and West Roxbury; North House, Marjie Piret of Wolbach Hall and Paris, France; South House, Anne Righter Thornton of 11 Peabody Terrace, Cambridge...