Many students struggle in at least one lass during the school year, but Liberty’s peer tutoring program is helping students improve their grades and confidence. Grades determine whether you can graduate, go to school events, and get into good colleges. Here at Liberty, we have a peer tutoring program, where fellow students help them understand the content that is being taught in the classes. By connecting students with helpful peers during Soar, the program creates a supportive environment where students can ask questions, strengthen their understanding, and succeed academically.
Peer tutoring helps students engage in learning with someone around the same age as said student, it helps them understand content with someone who relates to the struggles that classes and the school day can bring. Tutoring is once a week during Soar on Wednesdays, giving students the opportunity to go to other classes and teachers during the rest of the week. How you make an appointment is simple, all you have to do is make a securely pass to Mrs. Converse, stating what you are going to peer tutoring for. You go into the Peer tutoring center in room, (peer tutoring center, near the library), and you will be assigned a tutor depending on the subject that you need to work on. You work on that subject for the whole Soar block.
Sophomore, Eliza said, “Peer tutoring really helped me with multiple subjects, everyone tutoring me was extremely nice and encouraging. I enjoyed being able to get someone my age helping with similar struggles.”
Many students who get tutored here express they love the ability to have someone their own age to joke around with while learning the content they need to pass the class. They say that it is pretty organized and you don’t have to get tutored after school, which could go into any after school activities. Everyone that tutors is said to be very kind and patient, sometimes depending on the way different students learn it is harder to be patient when people don’t get things right away. Though everyone seems to understand that everyone learns differently and helps explain things in simpler ways.
“Making Peer tutoring more known will definitely benefit students, for the people who need tutoring and the tutors,” Claims Senior, Genesis Rodriguez- Romero
Changes that people have mentioned that one way the peer tutoring program could improve in the future would obviously get the word out more. People don’t know that there is a peer tutoring center, and if they do they feel embarrassed for needing tutoring. Teachers recommending tutoring or just it being mandatory based on what grade they have in a certain class. Another thing was better scheduling and creating group sessions, and one on one sessions. So for the people who are embarrassed by getting tutoring can have peers struggling with the same subjects. Being embarrassed about needed help is natural, everyone needs help at some point. Though asking for help is the hard part, having a group classroom setting will help students get the help they need with no shame involved.
Everyone learns differently, some people think more logically while others think more creative tutoring gives students the chance to improve academically while learning in a comfortable environment with other students their age. Whether students need help passing a class or simply understanding difficult material, the program creates a supportive community focused on success. As more students learn about peer tutoring, it could become an even bigger part of helping Liberty students succeed.
