Word: tutoring
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When Harvard students tutor Cambridge kids, they do so by participating in one of two campus public service organizations: Phillips Brooks House (PBH) and the Public Service Program's (PSP) largest component, the House and Neighborhood Development project (HAND...
HAND places student tutors in the Cambridge Public Schools through committees in each of the 13 houses. Each house is paired with a Cambridge elementary school, explains Public Service Program Student Coordinator Milbert Shin '87-'88. HAND volunteers from all the houses can also tutor at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School...
Maintaining a regular schedule can also be a problem for would-be tutors. While tutoring at the Fletcher School, Powell says he found what time he tutored affected his success. "There are some situations where [tutoring] works better than others," he says. "I saw the kids at the end of the school day when the last thing they want to do is sit there while their friends are having fun." He says that one of the students he had been assigned to tutor would sneak out of school to avoid the sessions...
Clemons described the relationships of her emotionally disturbed students with tutors as "multi-level." She says the tutor can give a struggling student an increased sense of social confidence, which can translate into academic progress...
...student is open and the tutor is committed, it can happen," Brickman says. "We have volunteers who manitain relationships years after graduation. You don't force it, but if it happens, that's terrific...