The first impression I have about Easley space is the tiny room for tutor section, which has a glass window looking out to the front hallway and the playroom. I could see how kids got distracted while doing their homework because of noise from other activities outside the room. In contrast with the tutor section, Easley has huge inside gym, a big playroom for games and outside playground. Most of their activities are taken place in the gym, playroom and outside playground. For that reason, I would think the tutor room is not designed for this purpose at the beginning but it become handy to supervise all the kids at the same time since these places are closed to each other. That also hints that Easley has a limited number of supervisors to watch out for these kids in different section.
The teaching materials at Easley seem a bit out-of-date, and limited. I have looked over the bookshelf and noticed there are some encyclopedia books and some elementary school cartoon books. For past couple month tutoring there, I didn’t use any books or any other materials provided there at all because they are not really relevant and seem to be useless. Most students bring their own paper or school textbooks to do their homework. In my experience, providing paper station would be beneficial for the kids here to facilitate them in learning. I remember there are couple times when we were working on some math homework and the kids really need to have some blank paper for drafting but it took me almost fifteen minutes to looking for some. In addition, they don’t have too much of teaching tools and equipment for kids to actually hand on in order to visualize most of the problems. They are lack of creative games such as scrapple or some mathematic logo pieces. Instead, most of the games provided here are simple and ineffective in teaching kids critical thinking.
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