The National Honors Society offers weekly tutoring sessions at the Aliso Niguel High School Library on Thursdays after school. The weekly tutoring allows all students across campus to be assisted with different subjects and their struggles with the tutoring of NHS members. The tutoring takes place every Thursday from 3:15p.m to 4p.m in the library, and tutors for all subjects will be available for the students who want tutoring.
Rebecca McClellan, the head advisor of NHS said: “We have NHS students sign up for all the core subjects, like Math, History, English and Science. They sign to volunteer their time. And then they’re just there to help whatever students need help with”.
Ms. McClellan also notes that the NHS tutors “go up as high. I’ve seen help in AP Physics…and AP chem.”
NHS is an American high school organization that recognizes students for excellence in Scholarship, Leadership, Service, and Character.
Students who are interested in joining must apply and be selected by staff who review and decide on the applications.
The NHS members are expected to complete and be involved in various volunteering events and earn the required hours throughout the year.
Ms. McClellan said, “well my kids just want to volunteer and I just want to offer free service for students who maybe can’t afford a tutor. The NHS students are smart and they can be really helpful.”
The NHS tutoring is not specifically limited to basic fundamental classes and includes tutoring help for a lot of advanced classes and courses.
Many NHS tutors specify their highest level of their subject taken throughout high school in order to ease the students’ decisions in picking their fit tutor. This ensures that all students are given the opportunity to seek help and be assisted by the NHS tutors.
Junior Shaya Danesh said, “I think the afterschool tutoring is really beneficial to people who just need a little extra help. Taking advanced classes myself this year, I find it really helpful to be able to go to a tutor that is available right after school in our library.”
An addition to this year’s NHS chapter is the offer of NHS SAT tutoring for Juniors and Seniors.
The SAT is a digital, standardized admission test administered by the College Board that assesses a high school student’s readiness for college-level work in Reading, Writing and Math and is scored on a 1600-point scale and used by colleges and universities as one data point among others, like high school GPA and extracurriculars, to evaluate college applications.
The SAT requires a broad knowledge on various topics and subjects and involves a series of questions that assess the students general ability to recall information and problem solve.
Those who are interested in completing the SAT spend a generous amount of time preparing for the test, and the NHS tutoring can offer extra help for those who want to ask questions and be assisted by those who have completed the test in the past.
The president of NHS, senior Oliver Lou is in charge of the new SAT Tutoring.
McClellan said: “He really wanted to add the SAT tutoring. He is really passionate about it so he’s going to start offering. But our first trial tutoring will be an indication of how this new addition will turn out in the future.”
