In my second week of service scholars, I had to help tutor third graders with simple division and reading. This was a very valuable experience to me as it taught me how to use a students’ advantages to help them take away their disadvantages. While helping one student learn division, rather than have them learn it through methods of division, I taught them how to use multiplication to help them do division. They were very good at multiplication so it made their lives much easier to think of division as a method of multiplication rather than think of it as a whole new type of operation.

This experience was somewhat eye opening because sometimes I forget how much we as older students/adults can use our own advantages to mask up our disadvantages. Often as college students we tend to focus on the negatives or disadvantages we have and we allow it to bring us down. This short experience reminded me to focus more on the positives and advantages that I have, so that I can help solve my problems and disadvantages

This was from my week 2, October 10th Service session.