TIRPers tell it like it is... time after time

 

USC students explore challenging global issues with high school students
by team-teaching four class sessions over four weeks at high schools in a 15-mile radius of campus.
 

It is not just the students who are benefiting from these activities and drawing connections to the real world, but I think that I am (and my teammates) as well. -Ashley Stefan, Spring 08

I hope that our involvement will inspire these students to attend college, and to effect change in their worlds, as they had some wonderful ideas about improving conditions on local, national, and international levels. YAY TIRP! YAY LEARNING! YAY USC! This has been a great experience. -Hailey Hoffman, Fall 03

I learned just as much from this exercise as the students did, if not more. I was not aware of the different divisions within the US intelligence and how they interact. And, putting the situation into context (regionally and historically) for the students reinforced my awareness of foreign policy during the Cold War. My group rocks! -Jesyka Harris, Fall 01

I was definitely sad to see the last class come and go. I truly enjoyed the experience of teaching at a high school class on many levels. Not only did it help me synthesize some of the material we are learning in my own IR classes but it also taught me how important it is to the teacher that students participate. I suppose I will be raising my hand a little more often in class. -Ed Tinsley, Fall 01

By doing this I learned a great deal about the world and I did something for the community. I learned a lot from the students and I hope they learned a lot from me. One student even suggested that I should become a teacher! -Sean Freeman, Fall 01

It is an opportunity to reach out to young students and give them a better understanding of the world in which they live in. An added incentive is that I am also learning from my students. -Rodrigo Sanchezgil, Fall 03

I saw a lot of potential in some students and some of their ideas to deal with poverty and corruption were thought provoking. -Anne Vaz, Spring 08

To be honest, this is the greatest volunteer work that I have ever done. I strongly recommend if anyone is interested in the program. -Shu Ting Cheung, Spring 2008

 



Through content-driven
service learning,
USC students
enhance their studies,
mentor local students,
and advance teaching excellence in the field of social sciences.

 

Annually, over 200 USC student placements are made in local classrooms and
an additional 70-120 students serve as mentors at the High School Leadership Conference on campus.

In eight years of CALIS outreach, more than 80 teachers across 35 local high schools have partnered with TIRP,
enabling over 2000 USC volunteers to teach and mentor over 20,000 high school students.

The continuous use of materials and strategies is leveraged to pilot new approaches and
hone teaching materials made available as a national resource.

CALIS and TIRP earned national recognition from the
Goldman Sachs Foundation Prizes for Excellence in International Education
for effective use of analytical tools and direct service to high schools

CALIS -Creating change…through a USC tradition of leadership & innovation in service

  
 
CALIS is an outreach project of the School of International Relations (SIR) at the University of Southern California