Persuasion

Find Ways to Engage the Kids

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that it is about creating a way for high school students to volunteer their own time to go into elementary level classrooms to tudor the kids on what they struggle with. For example, I am helping in math and reading. It is pretty much whatever the teacher thinks needs to be worked on. I am here to tell you that the best possible way someone can tudor a kid, is to find a passion of theirs, and use it. This creates an excitement within the child and opens up their minds to receive learning. Not every person in a class of 25 kids will just want to sit there and listen to the teacher talk about why adding 2 + 2 gives you 4. People are different and they have their own ways of learning things. If you decide to tutor some students, ask the teacher if you can come in at their recess as well as the subject you will be teaching, and really spend time to get to know the children personally. It might shock you how some of them will be so similar and, yet, so different. I, for one, learn easily through music and hands-on activities, whereas one of my friends learns best through lectures. Finding that passion in a kid might be exactly what you need to obtain their attention and keep them engaged and wanting to learn.