BOWE PARTNERSHIP
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Elms College Magazine
Fawz Ahmad, Education ESL major, ‘24, instructs second grade students.
Experiential Learning - Bowe Partnership
Partnering for the Future Does the journey to a career path or the working world begin at graduation? Does it begin when a student begins college or even high school? If we look at the larger picture, we notice that the journey starts from the time a child enters elementary school. And while the journey for every student is a complex one that is a combination of instructional strategies and teachers, it has been proven that the advantages of teaching methods such as students learning from hands-on experiences and the positive academic outcomes when they have mentors and also become mentors are substantial.
Therefore it is no small accomplishment that this year Elms College’s Office of Experiential Learning teamed up with Bowe Elementary to bring six students from Elms into the classroom to work with Bowe students. And the incredible benefits of this partnership have surpassed expectations. The children at Bowe relate to the Elms student tutors, the teachers benefit because the Elms tutors are a much-needed resource, and the Elms students learn from hands-on experience that gives them real-world opportunities to add to their resume and skills they can use as they become part of the community. It is this student-to-student interaction that makes this partnership special. There are incredible benefits of students working within the educational system to help teach the younger generation. The principal of Bowe Elementary, David
