Student Benefits | Teacher Benefits | Community Benefits | How Schools Can Adopt

Schools and the community as a whole benefit greatly from Senior Adults for Greater Education. Based on the three school districts in which we are currently active, we have discovered the following benefits to students, teachers, and the community:

Student Benefits

• Increase in self-esteem
• Increase in knowledge, skills and learning
• Increase in understanding and appreciation of aging and older persons
• Decrease of the stereotypes of aging and older adults
• New, positive connections and meaningful relationships with older people
• Mentoring relationships will positively affect those students who need extra attention-addition of supportive, positive role models
• Increase appreciation for the legacy that seniors have created for the younger generation Increase in historical perspective
• Increase sense of connection with the community
• Help students realize that learning is a life-long process
• Show students that by giving of themselves they can make a difference in the world

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Teacher Benefits

• Increase support in the realization of their professional goals
• Improved quality of their program-reduction of student-adult ratios in classroom at no cost
• Increased time to teach
• Creation of the feeling of one with the community, creating a sense of everyone working toward a common goal-education for the youth of the community
• Increased respect, understanding and appreciation for the job of a teacher

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Community Benefits

• The creation of bonds between older adults and students-fostering a sense of community
• All participants will benefit as they learn from one another
• Dispelling stereotypes that seniors may have of the younger generation, and visa versa-creating a feeling of comfort between generations
• Local partnerships will form between families, schools, businesses, community and religious groups which is a proven way of raising student achievement, and creating and sustaining safe communities
• An increase in opportunities for youth and older adults to both give and receive support
• Prevention of unnatural age segregation, which increases community awareness about issues that affect both young and old
• Having a vehicle to facilitate community collaboration, pooling of resources, and encouraging cooperative problem solving
• Promoting an appreciation for rich cultural heritages, traditions and stories

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How Schools Can Adopt

If you are interested in bringing Senior Adults for Greater Education into your school district, please contact Beryl Katz at 215.357.2332 or beasage03@aol.com.

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