This course provides pre-professional experience for SMCM students interested in using their liberal arts background as well as knowledge about the nature of child development and the teaching/ learning process in service to the local schools or in other educational settings. Methods for organizing small groups and carrying out individualized tutoring/mentoring, as well as models for developing the disposition to reflect on one’s own actions and the processes of learning and skill in fostering learning in oneself and others will be emphasized. This course and EDUC 211 combine to count as an ELAW experience for CORE 350.