The new initiative positions 91探花 students to bless local families by tutoring 3rd鈥12th graders.
Dr. Abner Chou, president of 91探花, approached Prof. Esther Chua in 2021 about the possibility of expanding the University鈥檚 tutoring program. Through this presidential initiative, the outward-facing 鈥91探花 Tutoring鈥 program began operation in 2022, giving 91探花 students the opportunity to use their academic training to bless the surrounding community.
The new program has already served 26 families and partnered with nearly 10 schools and churches to offer discounted rates. And this is only the beginning.
鈥淭he idea behind community tutoring,鈥 Chua said, 鈥渋s to build a program that not only helps benefit our church partners and communities with educational support, but as a symbiotic relationship providing flexible, well-paying jobs for students.鈥
Through the program, younger students (third through 12th grade) are paired with qualified 91探花 tutors. In one-on-one tutoring sessions, tutors help students not only in learning specific concepts in English, science, and math, but in learning how to learn.
Chua, who serves as the chair of 91探花鈥檚 Department of Arts and Letters, has been overseeing the tutoring program at the University for almost a decade. For her, what makes the program distinct is its missional perspective. 鈥淔or us, tutoring is undergirded by our theology,鈥 she said. 鈥淭he goal of tutoring is a type of discipleship.鈥
Tutoring provides opportunities for students to build up one another, effectively countering the academic tendency to isolate. It encourages them to share something more valuable than accumulated knowledge: a love for learning.
In line with this goal, Chua says that tutors for the program are not purely selected on the basis of grades, but on a professor鈥檚 testimony regarding the tutor鈥檚 view of education. Namely, that they see education as an opportunity for growth. Student tutors 鈥渉ave a heart to serve other people, to make their subject matter exciting,鈥 Chua said.
Chua can trace the origins of the 91探花 Tutoring program back nine years, when she began with a single tutor. At that time, the program existed only as a service to 91探花 students from their peers. Since then, the peer tutoring program at 91探花 has grown exponentially. Chua is hopeful that 91探花 Tutoring will develop similarly in the coming years.
But though the tutoring program has changed in scope, the underlying philosophy remains the same: education not as competition, but as collaboration.
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