My Experience At Oasis Tutoring Center Essay - 938 Words

Introduction This past fall I had the chance to volunteer at Oasis Tutoring Center. I thought going in that I was going to show up to get my hours done for my class. I didn’t think about how heavy this experience would embark on my heart. The slogan for Oasis is â€Å"Healing Hearts.† This is exactly what happened during my experience at Oasis. Not only did I heal hearts during my tutoring experience, my heart was also healed somehow during it too. This experience will stay with me forever as a teacher and in everyday life. I am so thankful that I could be apart of something so empowering. Field Experience Site- Oasis Oasis is a program for the children of immigrant families whom live in this 200 Mobil home village. Majority of the families only speak Spanish. All the kids attend a charter school down the street from all their homes. After school, the children from Pre-k to 4th grade attend this tutoring program. There are around 85 students who attend Oasis. This program is here to help children with their homework and to help them learn too. Like I previously stated, many of the families only speak Spanish so they are unable to help their children with their homework. I tutored three boys; they were in the second grade so they were 7-8 years old. I had two excelling second graders and one that lacked a little. Come to find out it was just a family issue that happened less than a year ago so he was having a hard time. When I could get the third boy in the mood to learn, he wasShow MoreRelatedThe Importance Of A Multicultural Education And How A Student s Race And Ethnicity Influences951 Words   |  4 PagesFor past field experiences, I chose to volunteer at Oasis Catà ³lico. However, although I have had a very formative experience with that program and chose to continue volunteering for them this semester, I decided to add an additional volunteer placement to my schedule. Due to the fact that, on a lucky day at Oasis, tutors may have to work with only two students rather than four, I wanted to have a volunteer experience where I could focus all of my attention on one student for the whole entire semesterRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesoverlap with the preceding period and disconcertingly radical shifts in the course of global development in the 1900s, contradictory forces and trends, which perhaps more than any other attribute distinguish this turbulent phase of the human experience, render it impervious to generalized pronouncements and difficult to conceptualize broadly. As the essays in this collection document in detail, paradox pervades the time span we call the twentieth century, no matter how it is temporally delineated