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| This is the library that the homework club was held in. |
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| This is the outside of the library. |
For the Reaching for Equity project, we need to volunteer at some organizations . For me, I chose to volunteer at Parkmont Elementary School. For the project we did on first semester, I did it on topic of afterschool academic programs and this is one of the organization that i did reach on. On the last Tuesday, April 24th,
2012, Vivian and I went to Parkmont Elementary School for the afterschool
homework club to help out some elementary school students with their homework. I
chose this place to volunteer because it is near our area and I started to
volunteer at Parkmont starting from last year when I was a sophomore. I enjoyed
this volunteer job so I decided to do it again this year and I started during January.
We went there right
after school and we got there around 3. When we arrived there, the kids just
got into the library and we talked to the librarian, Mrs, Peterson. We told her
about our Equity Project but sadly, she told us that it was actually the last
day for the homework club due to the testing. I was a bit disappointed and it
is going to be hard to find another volunteer. After talking to her, we started
to help out the kids. I went up to Yesmine, a third grader that I usually work
with. I helped her with her social science homework, which she always struggles
on. I walked around the library after I finished helping Yesmine and I noticed
that there were three girls which are also volunteer were chatting all the
time. I was a bit annoyed and angry because if you come here and just talk for
the whole time, you shouldn’t be coming here. I feel like they just want to
come get community service hours but not really helping the kids out. Sometimes
when I am helping a kid, I see some kids that need help but they just help them
to do the homework instead of teaching them how to do it.
For this volunteer, I
learned how to much teach the kids on their homework. But the most important is
that I like to be around with those kids and help them because I feel happy
when I see the kids get help on what they need and it helps them to get better
and it is a way for them to be success in the future. It also brings me back
the memories of my elementary life.
4 comments:
I am glad that I saw your post because this gave me an idea of a volunteer work that I would actually be really interested in doing. Reading about your post got me excited and thinking about volunteering at Vallejo Mill Elementary school, since that is the school I went to. I do agree with you that in some point,it is wrong for people to just volunteer for community service hour especially in places where relationships are built, like this. It would be sad to see a student get attached with a volunteer and actually see them as a role model but in the end, that person is just doing the work for hours. Again thank you for the idea(=
I agree with you that teaching is fun and I also volunteer to tutor for Math. And it is also distracting when people are talking instead of helping with the children.
Its true that students that go somewhere just to volunteer should not go at all because they are missing the whole point to being a volunteer and I am glad that helping the kids is one of the things you find interesting because it benefits students alot. :)
Tutoring younger kids is just like a step in training in becoming a teacher, it's almost like that. There are so many kids out there who do not have the benefits that we have or that certain other students have such as getting private tutors. By volunteering to tutor younger students, it closes that knowledge gap between students who cannot afford the tutoring with students who do have their own private tutors or tutoring groups. Great job!:)
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