Our main purpose is to identify qualified youths and guide them in the process of enrolling in an institution of post-secondary education and providing information on the availability of financial aid. The program provides academic, career, and financial counseling to students in selected schools in the San Diego City Schools and Sweetwater Union High School District.
Service Learning: The SDSU Talent Search Program includes a service learning model in which 50 full-time undergraduate and graduate students are recruited, selected and trained to serve as volunteer tutors to keep at-risk-youth in school and increase their academic skills.
Tutors are trained by educators from the Pre-College Institute (PCI) through their enrollment in Teacher Education 362, a 3-unit service-learning course that focuses upon literacy and positive behavioral and attitudinal characteristics of adolescents. The course consists of lecture, group discussion sessions, role-playing activities, and supplemental training on instructional and tutorial methodology to prepare tutors to work with middle and high school students. These enthusiastic and highly motivated college students work as tutors in classrooms with cooperating teachers to provide literacy tutoring to students during regular school hours at one of the participating schools for a minimum of 4 hours per week for 10 weeks.
POSTED: Friday, April 4, 2008
Earn 3 units of credit for assisting middle/high school students and instructors in their classes and/or after school. Volunteer tutors will serve as mentors and role models to low-income, potential first-generation college, underrepresented students. Our program is geared toward encouraging all students to succeed in their educational goals and to pursue a college education. For more information, please contact Courtney Franklin at (619) 594-6667 or talentsearch@projects.sdsu.edu.
