PACE Update 2/11/11

Greetings Mentors,

I hope you are having an excellent week. I want to give you a few updates on PACE at King Middle School.

1. First, we have been getting great feedback from Ms. Rainey and Ms. Ridley about our tutoring efforts. They are happy that we can assist them and even wish that we could come more often.
2. With that being said, there are a few concerns that need to be addressed. As a mentor, we need to make sure that we are teaching the concepts in the exact way that the teachers teach them. The students are getting confused because we may have different methods of solving a problem than the teachers do. In order to keep everyone on one accord, we just ask that you watch the  teacher as she explains how each problem should be done, and then help the students solve the problems using her method.
3. Not only do the teacher's look forward to us coming to mentor, the students do also. Just the same, if you are scheduled to mentor for a certain date and time, and you cannot make it, please let me know in a timely manner so that I can relay the message to our Liaison at King Middle School, Coach Carter. The students and teachers are expecting you at the time that you have given, and we want to make sure we can let them know ahead of time that you will not be able to attend. Next week, we will have a binder in the front office for signing-in. This will be used for statistics as well as keeping track of mentor participation points.
4. March to College Day will be on Thursday, March 10th. M2CD is an event where we invite 15 students from King Middle School to Georgia State University for a day. We will take them to our classes, give them a campus tour, provide lunch, and engage in other activities. We do expect our mentors to participate in this event as your schedule permits. There will be a more detailed email about M2CD sent out in the near future.
5. Finally, there will be no mentoring next week during the 9:00am slot, the students will be testing. Also, there will be no mentoring on Friday, February 18th. The students are out of school for winter-break.

Once again, I would like to say that we have been receiving great feedback about our assistance, and we want to keep that up and improve on the areas that we need to. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me. Have a great week!