Teach Anything You Want for ESP’s High School Studies Program

Teacher Registration

Teacher Registration for Summer 2008 is open. Summer HSSP will run on Sundays from June 29 to August 17. Teachers can teach from 10:00 - 12:00, 1;30-3:00 and 3:00-5:00.

About HSSP

HSSP, or the High School Studies Program, is our oldest program. For 50 years, students from around the Boston area have come on weekends or evenings to take classes taught by MIT community members and students like you.

ESP’s flagship program running since 1957, HSSP is an approximately 10-week program held every spring and summer. About 300-500 students from 7th through 12th grades visit MIT each week for up to 3 two-hour classes on all kinds of subjects. As an HSSP teacher, you get to pick any subject that interests you, then explore it in-depth with any number of students you choose.

Last year, HSSP brought in about 250 students from grades 7-12. Each of HSSP’s 60 or so classes were held in MIT classrooms: from 10 am to noon, 1 pm to 3 pm, and 3 pm to 4:30 pm. Class subjects included fusion energy, the history of London, C++ programming, and building loudspeakers.

As a teacher for HSSP, you can direct every aspect of your classes any way you want. Honestly, you can teach whatever you want.*

• You choose the subject matter and create the curriculum.

• You can teach classes jointly with a friend or teach by yourself.

• You can pick the most convenient time during the day for your class.

• Within reason and common decency. But those are both probably negotiable.

HSSP Spring 2008

This spring, HSSP will run every Saturday from March 8th to May 10th. The program will begin this year with Spark, a one-day Splash-like program for which you will teach the first section of your HSSP class and also any other one-day classes that you’d like to teach. Teacher registration will be open soon!