Bentley's benefit

Scott Morency, founder of Bentley’s 2+2=5 service learning program created the project to teach children in the Waltham area crucial skills, which are important in their educational development.  His original intent was, for each child who participated in the program to get something special out of the course, which they could use later on in their educational careers.  However, after completing the program as one of the instructors, I have begun to feel that the Bentley students gained more from the experience then the children.

   

Before the serving learning session began, we the instructors for the program were briefed on what to expect, what we would be doing, and ways to handle certain situations which may come our way.  After all of this training, we then were sent to the classrooms of Waltham public schools where we taught these students vital skills which they will need later in life.  The students got a lot from the experience by the activities which we performed with them; however I feel that the Bentley students gained more. 

The children who participated in the program were not always present for each activity period and dealt with long breaks away from the program.  In fact, the chart created by Scott Morency proves that the extended break between weeks four and five created a decline in the advancement of the children.  That is why I feel the Bentley students gained more from the experience then the children who actually were suppose to.  We Bentley students were briefed every week by our supervisors about our lesson for that week and what was expected of us.  We then had to mentally rehearse what we would be doing with the children and how we could also relate the activity we performed to actual academic lessons which was the original intent of the program. When we then arrived on site we were forced to lead groups of different children not knowing what to expect from week to week.  For example, Javier had deal with a crying child and Edison, Hitesh, and I had to deal with rambunctious children from week to week.  These were not easy tasks upon our parts and required a lot of effort to deal with. 

          

Now with the conclusion of the program, I feel that we Bentley students gained a lot from the experience.  We can now deal with people of all age groups, learn how to deal with different emotions, and can relate almost anything to any aspect of education.  Chances are with all the information which children are required to know now, they will not remember the majority of our lesson plans, and the fact that our activities were so fun may overshadow the lesson behind the activity.

Comments

[Edison Rua]

I agree with you but I think that both we and the students benefit the same. I think this because what we know we have to thank the students because I know I learned much from the students from how to talk to each of them to how we have to do each activity. I know the students benefited because we could see the improvement throughout the ten weeks.
Peace
Edison

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I salute Scott Morency for having the aim to teach students. He is great!

[Tap Dance Mat]

I would like to congratulate Scott Morency for doing a job well done. He inspires a lot of students to learn more.