Central students can participate in “Homework Help Tutoring” in the library after school from Tuesdays to Thursdays from 3:05 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.
If a lesson is confusing, or if students need assistance on an assignment, Homework Help is a resource for students. Tutors are assigned to designated tables, each with a sign stating what subject they are helping with. Students can sit and wait at the teachers designated table.
English Teacher Pam Homan is an English tutor after school in the library for Homework Help. She has worked at three Omaha Public Schools and has chosen to do tutoring at the past schools and now here at Central.
Homan enjoys assisting students so that homework isn’t so stressful for them. “Students can ask a teacher one on one because in the classroom a lot of times students don’t ask questions,” Homan said. “Here in tutoring, they aren’t afraid to show that they don’t understand something.”
Geometry and algebra teacher William Donlan is a math tutor. Donlan enjoys helping students with this subject that many students struggle with, and it is his second year doing homework help. “I love to help all the different students that are working in different classes,” he said.
Tutoring is important for students to get another view of their homework in class. Students may be struggling and not come to tutoring. “They think they can leave class clueless and catch up with these things at home, but most of the time this isn’t the case,” Homan said.
Last semester there were 195 visits. Math is the most common subject students go to, with 72 visits last semester.
Donlan said one reason many students don’t go to homework help could be they don’t want to stay after school. Homan said it could be activities they have to do after school or transportation issues
Sophomore Fable Moriarty goes to Homework Help to ask more in depth questions on her homework. The resource has benefited Moriarty by keeping a steady going grade in her classes. In this case, when the Register interviewed her, she had come to get help with her biology homework.
“It’s a good resource here to get help from an actual teacher,” Moriarty said.
