Enrichment

     The enrichment period, offered weekly on Mondays and Fridays, helps students get extra assistance in subjects they’re struggling with or want to spend more time understanding. Hannah Hunt describes enrichment, saying, “I think it is just a time passing class. It’s boring and we never do anything.” In enrichment, lessons and assignments are taught to give students get the extra help they need in that subject.

     Each class teaches a different subject, usually pertaining to the overseeing teacher’s field of expertise, with the goal of enriching student knowledge about these chosen topics. Kiley Landis named a few of the enrichments offered at Buckhannon, but this list is by no means comprehensive. “Some enrichment classes are extra help for the ACT, sciences, math, English, history, and things like that.” Every student gets to choose which enrichment class they would like to be in, although they might end up somewhere else. Tailynn Snider said, “I wanted to be in an enrichment class that had something to do with nature; I was put into the class I wanted.”

     For this half an hour twice weekly, teachers try to teach their students to better understand content being taught in class or to expand on those base ideas into something more complex. Enrichment can be effective in many ways to students, giving a better understanding of topics, expanding their depth of knowledge, and providing an opportunity to be tutored. Kiley Landis said, “I have learned a few things I haven’t learned in class. You do not really have time to get extra help, in regular classes because they’re so short.”