PBHA’s RYSE today serves more than 100 students from various Greater Boston communities. The mission of RYSE is to create a small yet intimate environment to provide affordable ESL instruction to high-school refugee and immigrant students. As a seven-week intensive summer program that runs five nights a week (Monday through Friday), three hours each night [...]
PBHA’s RITE is a weekly tutoring program that serves high school students from Boston’s diverse and ever-increasing immigrant populations, including students from places like Haiti, Cuba, Somalia, El Salvador, China, and Afghanistan. The program pairs Harvard undergraduates with high school students in need of help with English skills, SAT preparation, or other academic subjects. What [...]
PBHA’s PEN volunteers teach English as a Second Language and Computer Literacy Skills to adult learners on the Harvard campus. Previous teaching experience is not necessary, and most of our classes are co-taught by two instructors. There is also some one-on-one tutoring. The average weekly time commitment is about four hours including teaching, preparation, and [...]
Chinatown ESL allows its volunteers the unique opportunity to teach a class of enthusiastic, motivated adults, mostly recent Chinese immigrants. Our free classes are incredibly popular in the Chinatown community, so we are always looking for new tutors! No teaching experience or Chinese language ability are necessary, although Cantonese speakers are always especially in demand. [...]