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Peer Tutoring
Anyone need help in a subject for school? Anyone struggling to get good grades in your Science or Math classes? You should go to the library and get help from some of your peers.
This year, peer tutoring is going to start on September 28th 2009 and will be available to you on Mondays through Thursdays in the AHS library starting at 3 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m. When asking Mr. Wang, the advisor of peer tutoring, what subjects will be tutored this year, he said “Any and all subjects. We have tutors for all levels of math and science, and are working on getting a wider range of tutors that can tutor in world languages.” He also said that “peer tutors are there to assist in all subjects and if they themselves cannot tutor in a specific subject or level, they can find someone who can.”
If any of you were wondering if there is going to be enough tutors and space for everyone to get help, have no worries! Mr. Wang assured me that there is plenty of space in the library for students to come whenever they want and get a tutor to help them in what they need. There is no schedule that you have to stick to but, if you want a specific tutor, you can look up their schedule and make arrangements with them to go when they are available. You can look their schedule up by “(quote on how to do that from Mr. Wang is to come soon).”
Just in case one might be having second thoughts about getting tutored by one of your peers, Peer Tutors have to go through a process in which they make sure that they are tutoring material in the subject they wish to tutor on. They also get trained on how to tutor “at an above- satisfactory level.”
If you would like to become a peer tutor, you “must fill out an application form stating information including (but not limited to) past classes and grades, subjects they wish to tutor, and days they will be available for tutoring. They must attend a mandatory informational meeting that describes the important aspects of the program. The last step would be to attend a training session which teaches the prospective tutors the "art of tutoring" - there's even a diploma for everyone at the end of the training session,” said Shadman Chowdhury, President of Peer Tutoring at AHS.
Although the deadlines and mandatory meeting/training to become a peer tutor were either last week of two weeks ago, you can always try (asked them when they can try again, no answer yet).
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Peer Tutoring
Anyone need help in a subject for school? Anyone struggling to get good grades in your Science or Math classes? You should go to the library and get help from some of your peers.
This year, peer tutoring is going to start on September 28th 2009 and will be available to you on Mondays through Thursdays in the AHS library starting at 3 p.m. and ending at 4 p.m. When asking Mr. Wang, the advisor of peer tutoring, what subjects will be tutored this year, he said “Any and all subjects. We have tutors for all levels of math and science, and are working on getting a wider range of tutors that can tutor in world languages.” He also said that “peer tutors are there to assist in all subjects and if they themselves cannot tutor in a specific subject or level, they can find someone who can.”
If any of you were wondering if there is going to be enough tutors and space for everyone to get help, have no worries! Mr. Wang assured me that there is plenty of space in the library for students to come whenever they want and get a tutor to help them in what they need. There is no schedule that you have to stick to but, if you want a specific tutor, you can look up their schedule and make arrangements with them to go when they are available. You can look their schedule up by “(quote on how to do that from Mr. Wang is to come soon).”
Just in case one might be having second thoughts about getting tutored by one of your peers, Peer Tutors have to go through a process in which they make sure that they are tutoring material in the subject they wish to tutor on. They also get trained on how to tutor “at an above- satisfactory level.”
If you would like to become a peer tutor, you “must fill out an application form stating information including (but not limited to) past classes and grades, subjects they wish to tutor, and days they will be available for tutoring. They must attend a mandatory informational meeting that describes the important aspects of the program. The last step would be to attend a training session which teaches the prospective tutors the "art of tutoring" - there's even a diploma for everyone at the end of the training session,” said Shadman Chowdhury, President of Peer Tutoring at AHS.
Although the deadlines and mandatory meeting/training to become a peer tutor were either last week of two weeks ago, you can always try (asked them when they can try again, no answer yet).