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 for a year for Delve; by yourself or with the help of friends.

Current Programs

You can currently sign up to teach for Junction and HSSP.

HSSP

ESP’s flagship program running since 1957, HSSP is a 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. In 2008, the spring session will run from March 8 - May 10, with classes on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 1 p.m.-3 p.m., and 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. This year the summer session will run during July and August with classes on Sundays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m., and 3 p.m.-5 p.m.

JUNCTION

JUNCTION offers a more rigorous summer program that can cover a semester’s worth of material. It will be offered Monday through Thursday evenings for 6 weeks from June 30 through August 7.

Spark!

Premiering March 8th, Spark is ESP’s newest program. Every year our fall Splash program has been growing tremendously and we’ve been hearing: “Why is Splash only once a year?” So we decided to have a mini-Splash this spring! We hope that Spark will be as exciting as Splash and some of that enthusiasm will segue into our spring HSSP program. At Spark students will be able to take short, one-time classes as well as the first sessions of their HSSP courses. So if you’re interested in teaching anything you want to high school and middle school students, teach for Spark!

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; we will be running Splash on Wheels January 27th at Fitchburg High School. You should teach!

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.

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 1,500 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 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.

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 third 6-week run is scheduled for this spring.