Lisa A.

I started instructing fifth-grade students while I was working on my master's degree in Houston. The graduate school had an outreach program to help teachers in underserved schools teach science. Graduate students would come by once a month to do a hands-on lesson concerning whatever topic the teacher had been working on. Not only did it allow the teacher a little bargaining power for good behavior, but the kids loved it and the lessons really stuck. The scores for those schools on the state sta…