Know the community whom you are serving
To signup for any of these service sites, please complete the online
signup
form. Please be aware that you will be asked to authenticate your username and password when you click the link.
Project Home
Upon arriving at Project Home we divide into groups to assist elementary through high school students with their homework. Some Villanova mentors tutor students on a one-on-one basis, while others work with younger age students in a classroom setting. Upon the completion of their homework, the mentors who work with the high school students are then divided into specialized interest areas, including music, movies, and multi-media. In these areas we work with the students to develop creation projects which reflect what they have learned in their discipline. The opportunities presented to students through Project Home are outstanding, the students seem to benefit from this program and from our help.
- Service Schedule: M-TH 3:30pm-6:30pm
Cooke Elementary School
We leave from SAC Lot at 8:00, and arrive at Cooke around 8:45. We are each assigned to a classroom, based on class needs and our preferences. We stay with that same classroom for the semester. In the classroom, it depends on the teacher, but mostly we work our way around the classroom while students are working independently or in groups, and help them with reading, spelling, pronunciation, or assignments. Sometimes, volunteers focus on children who are having specific academic or behavioral issues. We stay until 10:30, and then arrive back at Villanova before 11:30.
- Service Schedule: T,W,TH 8-11:30am
Urban Bridges Adult Literacy
At the Urban Bridges Adult Literacy Program, you will tutor adult learners one-on-one in a variety of subjects within math and reading. Learners range from grandparents learning to read for their grandchildren to teenagers working toward their GED.
As a tutor you are given suggested workbooks to use according to the grade level
of your learner, although each tutor puts together his or her own unique program
based on the needs of the learner. The director of the program will provide
support if needed but generally the service is self-directed. Most days you will
arrive around 3:00, go over your learners' homework, copy pages from the
workbook for the next lesson, and teach them the new subject or review areas of
difficulty from the previous lesson. There is a five minute break in the middle
and the session concludes at 5:15. This program would be great for someone who
likes working one-on-one and would enjoy being actively engaged for the full two
hours.
- Service Schedule: M,W 9:30am-12:30pm and TH 2:30pm-6:30pm
Urban Bridges Children’s Literacy
Urban Bridges' Children's Literacy Program allows you to work one-on-one with a student (mostly ages 8-14). Each student comes into the program at a different reading level, but you are given a comprehensive profile to introduce you to the student and help you target areas to improve. This profile also serves as a lesson plan. Each day you travel with your student through three stations--an individual reading session and workbook activities, followed by a group reading session, and finished with some time in the computer room. The end of the program is also fun--while the kids wait for their parents to come, you can play games such as Apples to Apples and other reading games. Not only do you help children learn to read, but you also serve as a mentor and role model to the students at Urban Bridges.
- Service Schedule: M,W 5:30-8pm and T, TH 3:30pm-6:30pm
High Schools - Overbrook or Olney
You will do either do one of two projects. You may work with the Department of
Education in the resource center at Overbrook High School you will be tutoring math and science. The other opportunity has been designed to help seniors at Olney High School (west) complete a senior project. The senior project has four components, research paper, project (product), Portfolios and Panel and is required for graduation. The parts of the project are all clearly defined by the Philadelphia School District. I am hoping that some of our students can be paired with one or two seniors. You will be responsible for helping students who are most likely deficient in reading and math to complete their senior project.
The goal is to use your abilities to help high school seniors find a topic that interests them and to walk with them through every step of the process. You will work in a group of Villanova tutors and High School students who will become a community of learners. We are hoping that the students will be able to come to Villanova and have a session geared toward their needs at the writing center, a tour of the library.. This program has not officially been worked out with the administration at the high school. It will take a bit of work as this school as they do not have a lot of support personnel. A time has not been scheduled for this program as we have not received one from the administration of Olney West high school for Creative and Performing Arts, Justice and Law. Time to be determined.
Peer Mediation Program
SLC students from VSB: 06-‘07 have designed a peer mediation program in partnership with Cooke Elementary School. Cooke Elementary has expressed a need for their students to develop alternative models for conflict resolution. Since this is an essential personal management skill that all persons need to develop, we have decided to set a time aside for volunteers to be with the students who have been chosen to be a part of a leadership program based on Peer Mediation. Our students will actually be researching as well as running a peer mediation program after school. This is the first time for t his program so I imagine it will hit some bumps along the way, so students who choose this service site will need patience, creativity and a willingness to learn along with SLC leadership.
- Service Schedule: T 2:30-5:30pm
National Student Partnerships
This is an agency in Germantown which seeks to meet the immediate needs of the poor who live in the community. Students meet with clients on a 1:1 basis, helping them complete a resume, find job listings, emergency housing or any crisis in their lives. Clients are all adults. You will be trained to use the data base of services and how to work with a client by NSP.
National Student Partnerships (NSP) is the nation’s only year-round, student-led volunteer service organization that links people in need with the resources and opportunities necessary to become self-sufficient. Founded by college undergraduates in 1998, NSP operates a national network of drop-in resource centers, staffed by student volunteers from area colleges and universities. Working one-on-one with low-income community members (clients), NSP volunteers provide intensive on-site and referral services, which enable clients to achieve their goals.
BEST Robotics
BEST is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology through participation in a sports-like, science- and engineering-based robotics competition. You will build a robot and teach and learn leadership skills and introduce students to the wonder of engineering and science. However as a student in the service learning community you are a student of science and society. You will also be learning from the high school students in Best Robotics and so we call you a learning partner as you will teach and learn a great deal about life and about yourself through this partnership.
|
