My students worked throughout the year making pillow cases and tote bags for the local shelter, as well as participating in fundraising drives for the shelter. For Kids model program. I am also infusing service into my grade 8 classes through a unit on aging. The students being tutored have learning difficulties or special learning needs. We have found placing ten to fifteen tutors in any one school to be the most efficient as any more creates an overcrowding problem.
Students reflect, synthesize and analyze while working on service-learning projects.
Two one hour sessions are provided each week for approximately thirty weeks of the school year. Tutors are also responsible for remaining with the child until the parents arrive to take the child home. P.T.A.s are most supportive of the tutors and of the tutoring program. There is excellent communication between teachers from the elementary school and the high school advisor to the tutors. An elementary student tends to become possessive of the tutor and can become upset if that tutor fails to attend a session without warning.