By S-LTA Katie Elliot On the Thursday before Spring Break, First-Year Writing Students got their hands powdery while building structures to express important parts of their life using marshmallows and toothpicks. This was part of a Service-Learning reflection activity for a class partnered with the 826 Boston Writer's Room at the John D. O'Bryant School… Continue reading First-Year Writing Students Simulate Service Experiences Using Marshmallows
Many of the community needs in Boston center around the city's youth and the desire for additional academic support. As such, a significant number of service-learning students are engaged in service that involves tutoring at after or in-school programs throughout the city. Building resources for our students to use so that they can serve confidently is an… Continue reading Tutoring Tips Tuesday: Jeremey McDavid
Many of the community needs in Boston center around the city's youth and the desire for additional academic support. As such, a significant number of service-learning students are engaged in service that involves tutoring at after or in-school programs throughout the city. Building resources for our students to use so that they can serve confidently is… Continue reading Tutoring Tips Tuesday: Yaa Kyeremateng
By Benjamin Sanders Will you be spending some time tutoring this semester as part of your service-learning class? Check out former S-L student-turned Street Team member Ben Sanders' PROTIPS for tutoring. As an added bonus for S-L students serving with 826 Boston this semester, register now for their tutor training taking place tomorrow from 6:30-7:30pm!… Continue reading #PROTIPS from an S-L Tutor
By Dilan Kurt Last week, as I was trying to get used to the weather of Boston, I got really sick and missed my shift at the Writer’s Room. My sickness made me realize one thing, one thing only: tutoring at the Writer’s Room is an indispensable part of my life! I never would have… Continue reading Week 4 in the Writer’s Room
By Jorge Lastra Gonzalez I enter into the building experiencing some weird feelings, these ones that shake all the body. In fact, it was going to be the first time giving advice to a native speaker on his/her own language. I mean, let me insist on how weird this is for me. Since I walked in to… Continue reading My first O’Bryant Tutoring Experience
By Varun Sudhakar During this week, I had two sessions of tutoring. On the first day, there were no students present in the writer’s room. Although I could have viewed this as a waste of time, I decided to take this as an opportunity to get to know the place better and how the system… Continue reading A perspective from the John D. O’Bryant School of Math & Science Writer’s Room
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