99-200: Tutoring, Mentoring and Role Modeling--A Community Service Course
99-200 Tutoring, Mentoring and Role Modeling¿A Community Service CourseThis course has service, intellectual, and personal goals. Its service goal is to provide effective tutors, mentors, and role models to local public school children. Students meet for class once/week and tutor 26 hours during the semester in programs that provide an opportunity to share talents and skills in the community. To promote effectiveness, the course includes topics of tutoring (making tutoring interesting and creative, focusing on meta-learning strategies and study skills); mentoring (exploring multiple mentoring models and the mutual benefits of a mentoring relationship); and informed citizenship (gaining a broader understanding of the issues that urban kids face, exploring how public policies affect the disparities between urban and suburban school student performance. The course also investigates the reasons that ¿supplemental educational services¿ are a $27 billion/year industry in the United States -- Why are so many students in need of extra help? Tutors learn that they can be effective in helping younger students, and that it is personally rewarding to do so, and express that it is refreshing to step outside the grind of Carnegie Mellon life and do something meaningful in the community.
| A | T | 09:00 am - 10:20 am | CFA 212 | Hallinen |