The Garden Learning Community
The Garden Learning Community
Where STEMs and Flowers Bloom
The Garden is a friendly, welcoming community — designed with each student's learning style in mind. We focus on all learning styles and tempos.
Our counselors, instructors, and STEM Center tutors are trained to understand potential challenges you may experience if you participate in any of our Garden-affiliated programs.
Getting Started
The Garden is here to help if you participate in any of these 17³Ô¹Ï programs. You will need a referral through your program coordinator, instructor or counselor to access tutoring in The Garden.
Garden-Supported Programs
Virtual and OnCampus Tutoring in The Garden
For Online Tutoring: We use Zoom to pair you with a tutor. You'll need a quiet space and a computer with a microphone to participate.
To see the current Garden Hours, to access The Garden hours, for both Online and OnCampus.
Our Philosophy and Methods
The Garden opened on Feb. 20, 2020, as a collaborative project among several founding 17³Ô¹Ï departments and program, including Athletics, Disability Resource Center (DRC), Geography, Math Performance Success (MPS), Psychological Services and Veterans Resource Center (VRC).
These groups have a common strategy to strengthen a student's foundation for success, by leveraging principles found in Universal Design for Learning, and principles of Neurodiversity.
The Socratic Method is applied to identify gaps in the student’s knowledge, regardless of the class level of the topic being tutored, so that learning and confidence levels increase in parallel.
Once the foundational elements are in place, the student can go forth with much greater ease and confidence, as additional knowledge is added on a very strong foundation.
ALEKS in The Garden
To increase both the knowledge and confidence levels of our students, we are providing an AI (Artificial Intelligence) driven learning system called ALEKS, which has been usedsuccessfully for several years as part of the Summer Bridge Math program at 17³Ô¹Ï.
The ALEKS software is available on the computing workstations in The Garden.
Questions?
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Learning Resource Center
All tutoring services delivered virtually for fall.