Teach Anything You Want

We really do mean anything. If you’re not sure what to teach and want inspiration, feel free to look through our archives. At ESP’s HSSP and Splash programs, you can pick any subject you can imagine. You can teach for ESP as a volunteer or as a paid hourly teacher; during the fall, spring, or summer; for 1 hour at Splash, or 3 hours every Sunday throughout the year for Delve; by yourself or with the help of friends.

Current Programs

ESP is currently recruiting for Junction Seminar Classes and Delve.

HSSP

ESP’s flagship program running since 1957, HSSP is an 8 week program held every spring and summer, with a pilot program running this fall. About 200-400 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. Summer HSSP will run every Sunday from July 12 to August 30. Classes will run 10:00 - 12:00, 1:30 - 3:00 and 3:00 - 5:00.

Junction

Junction is a 5 week long program in which approximately 100 high school students take intense, college-level classes on the MIT campus. The summer 2009 session of Junction will run Monday through Thursday evenings July 1st - August 6th 2009. If you are interested in teaching (seminar classes) for Junction this summer, please email junction@mit.edu.

SPLASH!

Splash is ESP’s largest program, and we want everyone to teach for it! Held the weekend before Thanksgiving each year since 1988, Splash brings 1,800 middle and high school students from all over the place to take classes taught by volunteers like you. As a teacher at Splash, you can teach a one-hour seminar or run a crazy all-weekend theater production. Over 200 MIT students taught a total of 401 classes at Splash! 2007.

Delve

We like to give Boston-Area high school students an opportunity they may not have at their home schools: to take AP classes, taught by bright college students in our program. Each Delve class matches with an Advanced Placement course: chemistry, calculus, and art history, for example. The classes, which are held on Sunday afternoons from 1:30-5:00 p.m., are each taught by 2 paid teachers on the MIT campus. If you’re experienced, and you love teaching secondary students, teaching for Delve is a great idea.

SATPrep

SATPrep is designed to help out students who can’t afford expensive SAT tutoring. We provide an intensive preparation for the SAT I in all three subjects (math, verbal, and writing) at the unusually low cost of $80. Like Delve, SAT Prep classes are held every Sunday (two separate sessions: fall and spring), and the teachers are paid by the hour.

Prove It

ESP’s newest math enrichment program, Prove It pairs a teacher up with a group of 3-4 middle schoolers with the intent of giving them a different (and more fun) look at math than they may experience in class. Prove It’s fourth 6-week run is scheduled for this fall.

Splash on Wheels

Designed with the intent of bringing Splash to the students, Splash on Wheels is a day-long event held at a nearby high school featuring some of the same classes offered at Splash. Splash on Wheels typically runs towards the end of MIT’s IAP.

Spark!

In 2009, Spark will run on March 7th, from 9am until 7pm.