“Summit High School student launches student tutoring program” plus 1 more |
| Summit High School student launches student tutoring program Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:48 PM PST When Summit High School junior Amanda Moore was asked to be a peer tutor in her chemistry class, she began thinking about it in a broader context. What if she wasn't the only tutor? What if more students needed help? And because she's seen a viable television version of a high school peer tutoring center in her favorite show, "One Tree Hill," the idea was born: students helping students at Summit High Schoo — for free. "I felt it would be really beneficial for some of the students who go here," she said. And so Moore, who's in the high school's student leadership class, began doing online research and connected with Holly Baldwin, one of the school's counselors, to get the ball rolling. She's since learned that when a freshman fails a class, it significantly impacts his or her ability to graduate on time, which only further compelled her to move the idea forward. The school has several free and fee-based tutoring options for students to get help from adults, Baldwin said, but Moore's peer tutoring idea could be the first of its kind in the high school. "It's so refreshing to have a grassroots movement from Amanda," Baldwin said, adding that about five years ago, Summit High School teachers encouraged a peer tutoring system. It lasted about two or three years before fizzling, she said. Moore wanted to have students do the tutoring because "they've been through it," she said, adding that it's helpful to have experienced a teaching style to help students understand approaches they may need to take. "I think the upperclassmen are reflecting on their freshman year ... What could have been a support that could've helped them?" Baldwin said, adding that she can foresee the tutoring center eventually morphing into a mentoring program. Moore expects the center to open in the next few weeks. Those freshmen who need the most help out of 38 who expressed interest will be paired, probably two-to-one, with about 13 upperclassman tutors who volunteered to participate. Moore and Baldwin want to avoid overloading the tutors as the project launches. "It was cool to see that people actually wanted to help," Moore said. She's also excited to see how many younger students want to do well and get the help. If they start well, it could build the momentum to continue to succeed, she said. The logistics still need to be ironed out, but Moore said students will be paired according to personality and according to subject needs and strengths — the most common needs are math and English, she said — and then let the tutors work out meeting places and schedules with their freshman learners. A study space is to be set aside for tutoring during and after the school day. Baldwin's role is to oversee the project, help it move forward, and ensure tutors are well-versed in their expectations, boundaries and appropriate meeting places and conversations to have. She'll also be a liaison with teachers to keep them informed of which struggling students are in the program and which students are helping so they can have some involvement. "I really want this to be teamwork with the teachers," Moore said, explaining that connecting tutors with teachers will help give direction for the additional instruction. Moore added that she can see that the tutoring center could help move standards-based grading forward. "It's all what you can do with the material," she said. "Getting extra help and looking beyond what (the material) is will really help." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Potkey: Rudy Carpenter is tutoring QBs Posted: 01 Feb 2011 06:32 PM PST Rudy Carpenter is tutoring QBs, Clay Matthews III is talking about his biceps and the Bryan twins aren't talking any trash. Local players and coaches are making news beyond the county lines. Here's what's being said and done. ... Former Arizona State quarterback Rudy Carpenter plans to work with aspiring young quarterbacks in the Arizona area this year. Carpenter, a Westlake High graduate, believes he can provide parents with more bang for their bucks. "There's a guy in California, he's never played football in his entire life, and he charges these kids $1,200 to go to his camp," Carpenter told the Arizona Republic. "You know what they do? They run, do workouts, lift weights, then go straight from a shoulder press to throwing weight balls, which you never do. You can hurt your shoulder that way. In my opinion, it's a joke. I hate these camps. I just feel there are a lot of parents being duped into paying ridiculous amounts of money." Carpenter spent this season as the third-string quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and said he hopes to re-sign with them. But for now, Carpenter will be traveling from Southern California to Arizona whenever a young player calls for help. "It's a good way for me to stay in the community and make a little money in the off-season," Carpenter said. "You know, a lot of these camps do stuff that you could do with your son in the park. I'm going to teach these kids how to play quarterback." ... Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports wrote a column this week about "ignored" athletes from Chico. Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a product of the Northern California city along with Oaks Christian School assistant football coach Mike Sherrard. A former Dallas Cowboys first-round draft pick, Sherrard didn't receive any attention from college coaches during high school except for one — Idaho State assistant Mike Sheppard, a Cal Lutheran graduate who is now the receivers coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. "He was the only coach who came and talked to me — and I think the only reason he did was because our names are so similar," Sherrard told Silver. "He won't admit it, but I really think that's what it was. In the '90s I was with the Giants and he was coaching with the Browns, and I saw him down on the sidelines before a game. He said, 'Do you remember me?' I said, 'Yeah! You came by Chico High when you were at Idaho State, and you didn't offer me a scholarship. And thank god you didn't — cause I would've taken it.'" Sherrard eventually enrolled at UCLA on the strength of his academics and asked to try out for the football team. .... Ricky Reilly dedicated a recent column on ESPN.com to Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews III and his hair, which is "so Fabio-lous that it has its own Twitter page: ClaysHair, with over 500 followers so far," Reilly wrote. "I guess that's cool," Matthews told Reilly. "But now there are other parts of me that want a Twitter page. My biceps aren't happy about it. We need to get working on one for them." Reilly continued, "With the hair, the Cuisinart arm-flailing and the shrink-wrap jersey, quarterbacks must think they're being attacked by a Swedish raptor. Matthews has 24 sacks in only two seasons. Imagine if his hair wasn't stuck in his mouthpiece. Is he good enough to get a street named after him someday in Green Bay, a la Lombardi Road, Brett Favre Pass and Reggie White Boulevard?" "I'd love that!" said Matthews, who signed a one-year endorsement deal with Unilever's Suave brand last week. "Maybe a 'Clay Matthews Dead End?'" ... Camarillo's Bob and Mike Bryan captured their 10th Grand Slam title last weekend at the Australian Open with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes. Bhupathi and Paes have been known to engage in a little trash talk on the court, but the teams avoided any confrontations. "Maybe if it would have gone three sets or got a little closer, it could have," Mike Bryan said. "But I don't think they chest bumped. We only threw in one. I thought it was going to be a chest-bumping war out there." One reporter pointed out in the post-match press conference that Bob is listed as No. 1 in the individual rankings and Mike is No. 2. "That's a typo," Bob said. "I think we are T-1," Mike added. "We have exactly the same amount of tournaments. He's probably just on top. It's alphabetical." — Rhiannon Potkey is a sports reporter at The Star. She can be reached by e-mail at rpotkey@VCStar.com This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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