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Enhance Your RE-SEED Volunteer Experience: Five Key Insights for Success

Volunteering with RE-SEED in Boston offers unique challenges and rewards. This guide compiles five vital observations for maximizing your productive time as a volunteer. Teaching can be demanding, yet the potential for impact is immense. Understanding teacher dynamics, administrative priorities, and student interactions can pave the way for meaningful contributions. Focus on supporting teachers, facilitating small changes, and navigating student relationships with care. Remember, the right approach can help create a supportive environment and foster lasting friendships with students.

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Enhance Your RE-SEED Volunteer Experience: Five Key Insights for Success

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  1. Being an Effective RE-SEED Volunteer Five Observations That Can Make Your Volunteer Time More Productive

  2. Teaching is a “Good” Job in Boston • Teaching is hard work, but salaries are $60-$90K which is high for someone with a BS • Teachers don’t want to lose these jobs or be transferred to a “difficult” school • Teachers are not usually interested in new and untried approaches that have not been approved by the administration

  3. Administration is a “Better” Job • School principals make $100 - $150K in Boston. They want to hold on to these jobs. • Principals have enough problems without RE-SEED volunteers adding to them.

  4. Help First – Make Small Changes Later • Don’t try to cure medical problems • Show the students how to use the (modern) internet to answer questions • Correct pronunciation gently • Support efforts in small ways financially • Support services are frequently chaotic. Teachers may not have time to get materials needed for lecture.

  5. Careful! Students AreTricky • STFU – Students love power over authority figures • Beats headphones • West Texas Experience

  6. The Best Friends You’ll Ever Have • Mondo story Students can be the best friends you’ll ever have.

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