I had come to tutoring through a long history of volunteering and decided, last October, that I wanted to return to those roots. I looked up volunteer opportunities in Cambridge and found the Cambridge Public Library Literacy Project. Through them, I met my student, I’ll call her A, an Ethiopian immigrant who had only rudimentary English skills at best.
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Free Play
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
-David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College
Dos and Don’ts
This blog post is in response to a recent New Yorker article, “Don’t,” from the May 18, 2009 issue. For those unfamiliar with the article, it can be found here. For those too busy to indulge in a full-length New Yorker feature, I have provided the following brief summary.
Zen and the Art of Parenting
“You must teach your kids they are special without having them think they are more special than anyone else.”
-Ray Magliozzi, Car Talk
A treatise on the middle path of child-rearing – or, how to help your offspring traverse the razor’s edge of adolescence – with input from Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s Car Talk.
Your teachers did make fun of you in the teacher’s lounge
After months of being chided by my teacher friends that “tutoring” was not the same thing as “teaching,” I finally decided enough was enough and volunteered to teach a full day of seventh grade social studies in the classroom of my lifelong friend, Chris. Although I fully realized he had orchestrated the argument Tom Sawyer-like to get out of a day’s work, the chance to teach a lesson in the same classroom where I had spent my formative years was not to be passed up. The fact that Chris and I had also met (and caused ample trouble) in that classroom was merely an ironic bonus.
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