Seacoast Reads

First Week of Tutoring

2007-03-02T14:39:00.000-05:00

HI!!

So most of you have completed their first week of tutoring!! Yay!!!

If you haven't already started then you will this week. I hope that it is safe to assume that if you didn't contact me that your first week well. Please do not hesitate to come to me with any problems or concerns that you may have about anything. That is why I am here. I just want to reiterate that everyone appreciates all that you do! The teachers and reading specialist at all of the schools love the program, and I want you to know that you really are making a difference! Thank you!!!

As you all should know, Education 506 is set to start on the 19th and 20th of March. Please if you are interested, but you haven't told me already then please let me know as soon as possible.
The times are:
ED506.01 Monday 3-4pm
ED506.02 Tuesday 7-8pm.

If you have already told me that you are interested, you will be receiving an e-mail soon to remind you which group you have chosen. It is a good time, and I encourage all who have the time to participate.

I can not stress enough, if you come across an issue at anytime during the semester, please come to talk to me. If you want you can post your concerns here. I really do want this to be a happy time for everyone involved!

Hope everyone has a wonderful second/first week!!! Check back here for more information as the semester continues!

~Kristin

WELCOME BACK!

2007-01-16T11:36:00.000-05:00

HELLO!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful vacation! Of course it figures that the snow would hold out until after vacation, just in time for everyone to walk to classes freezing... Bundle up and take the trek to the Seacoast Reads office in Morrill room 5!When you are here you can pick up an application, drop off an application, drop off books from last semester, get information about training sessions, or just warm up before walking to your next class.

The beginning of the semester is exciting, becuase it is when we get to mix the old with the new. If you are new the program we welcome you, if you are a returnee, we are so happy to see you again! Of course here is some more information...
Returning Tutors:
If you would like to coordinate a site, and haven't done so in the past please let me know. If you were a site coordinator last semester, more than likely you wil be again this semester. Let me know if you do not want this responsibility again. Since you have tutored in the past you are set to tutor as soon as we get the sites organized. Be on the look out for a lengthy e-mail with your tutoring destinations!

New Comers:
If you haven't filled out an application please do so, and if you have already turned in an application then I will be e-mailing you soon about training times. If you don't hear from me soon please e-mail me! I might have missed your name on the e-mail list or I could have forgotten something completely. You will have to finish two hours of training before you will be able to tutor. This is important to remember. If you have done part of the training last semester, I have that all written down, so just let me know if you can't remember.

Everyone:
Some things to keep in mind as the semester goes on...
Education 506 is going to start the beginning of March. This is a one credit class that is offered only to Seacoast Reads Tutors. It meets one hour one day a week. It is a fun time, and the students have a lot of fun hanging out and talking about thier tutoring.
Please utilize all of the material that is available to you in our office, but please return it when you are done. Please if you have books from last semester it isn't too late to turn them in. We want them back!
Be on the look out for another e-mail coming your way from me, but if you want to get in touch with me before then, please don't hesitate!

AIM SN: SeacoastReads
603-862-2955
SeacoastReads@yahoo.com
Morrill room 5

Hope to hear from all of you soon! Can't wait to get back into the schools! I hope you all are excited to start! Talk to you soon!

Next Semester

2006-12-04T10:00:00.000-05:00

Hi,

I hope everyone had a filling Thanksgivng! I know I did.

Now it is time to start thinking about next semester! We will accept all of those who would like to return to the program, and we will be looking for new comers. So, if you know someone who wanted to participate last semester, and wasn't able to please let them know they are able to join now for the up coming semester!

I will be getting in touch with each of you to discuse the hours that you would like to tutor shortly after you get back from Winter Vacation. If you e-mail your times now, I will still contact you in January, just to double check everything. I know things change and get rearranged some so it is good to double check.

If you don't know if you are going to be able to do it yet, that is all right. You don't have to know right now. It is fine if you want to wait until the new semester actually starts to figure out if you have enough time. I just will need to know as soon as possible in January, so that we can get the semester started quicker.

I hope that you all have enjoyed this experience, and even if you do not decide to volunteer with Seacoast Reads next semester, I encourage all of you to get involved with a volunteer organization. If you do not want to participate with Seacoast Reads, but you would like to do something, I can get you in touch with some one on campus that would be able to fiugre out what it is that you might like to do.

Thank you for all of your time, and support. Everyone involved with this program really appreciates everything that you all do. It doesn't go unnoticed. If you are a site coordinator, or if you just see someone who has been doing an extraordinary job, please let me know. Thank you all so much!

Keep checking your e-mail i will be sending out more information before and after vacation!

Thanks again!!

~Kristin

How is everyone?

2006-11-15T13:28:00.000-05:00

Hi,

I hope everything is going well at all of the sites. No news means good news, right? I know many of you are having a blast at your sites. All that you are doing is worth more than I can tell you. You are making a difference and it is all appreciated very much!

Just a few things that are coming up soon...

Thanksgiving: You are supposed to tutor on Monday and Tuesday next week. Wednesday here at the university is a Friday schedule so please let the schools know if you usually tutor on Wednesday.

Evaluations: After Thanksgiving the site coordinators will have to come and pick up the evaluations to distribute to the tutors and the schools. I will let everyone know when I have them ready for you.

Next Semester: Also after Thanksgiving we will be looking at next semester. I will e-mail everyone to invite them back next semester, and we can start to get a rough count on who is interested in volunteering next semester.

Thanks for all that you are doing again! It really is greatly appreciated. I hope everyone is having fun and is enjoying the time that they are getting to spend off campus with the students.

Thanks again!!!

Be on the look out for a lot of e-mails to come!

~Kristin

Things are under way

2006-10-18T12:20:00.000-04:00

Hi,

So this is exciting, things are finally getting started! Everyone should be placed in a site and if you haven't started by now then you will start this week or early next week.

This time of the semester really is important and exciting, because so much is going on...
- starting at the sites
*learning about your student
*learning about how to tutor properly
*getting to know the tutors are your site, use them as a resource, they know your school, and know the program.

AND

-Education 506 is starting!!!!!!
*The class will meet one hour one day a week.
*3-4 on Mondays or 7-8 on Tuesday
*The class will run for seven weeks starting next week on the 23rd.

I am so excited to start the class!!! I can't wait to talk to everyone about their tutoring sessions! I look forward to the discussions we will have about the required reading of TEACHER MAN, by Frank McCourt. I have started the book, and it is really interesting, and I hope it will generate a lot of comments and good conversations.

Please....don't hesitate to contact me with any issue. I love to hear about the positive things that are happening in your program, but am here to solve any problems that might occur along the way. The program could not run without you, and we want this to be an enjoyable experience for everyone!

If you haven't signed up for Ed506 it isn't too late. We need numbers, so we can order books, but if you are interested please let me know.

Thanks for all of your hard work!!!

~Kristin

contact information: new AIM screen name

2006-09-05T14:00:00.000-04:00

Hello!

If you are reading this you must be some what interested in Seacoast Reads, and if you haven't contacted me for more information then you should. There are many ways to cget more information about this wonderful opportunity:

phone: 862-2955 (2955 for those of you who are on campus)

E-mail: Seacoastreads@yahoo.com

In Person: Morrill room 5 stop by anytime!

Website: http://www.unh.edu/education/seacoast/srmaingood.html

This Blog!

and now by AIM: Seacoastreads Now anyone can IM me and get answers to thier questions quickly.

So please get information in you are interested, and also check back in for more exciting news! Hope to hear from you soon!!!!

Yeah, When does it start?

2006-08-30T09:07:00.000-04:00

Yes, it will start very soon. I am still in the organizing stage. The schools so far have been very cooperative and are receptive to the needs and wants of Seacoast Reads. The students are slow in coming but hopefully they won't be afraid to participate for much longer. Then after the sites are set up there will be two trainning session that all new students will have to go through. After all of this is finished then we are able to start. My goal is to start by the 18th of September, however my realistic goal is to have all of the site up and running by the following week, the 25th of September. Then hopefully we will be smooth sailing until December!

New Semester

2006-08-15T10:45:00.000-04:00

Hi, thank you for visiting the blog for the volunteer program Seacoast Reads. I am Kristin, and I am the coordinator for the program. I would like to use this website to post any questions or concerns that any of the volunteers might have. I will answer any e-mails the volunteers send to me that I feel the group as a whole should know about. Many times we all have the same questions. We will all see the same issue arise all of the volunteering sites. I will also post times and dates for the training sessions as well as more information about the optional class. Our regular website is still a work in progress. Hopefully soon it will have a lot of useful information. I''ll post again when it is done. So check in with us often for more information or to see if any of your questions have been answered. Thank you and KEEP READING!

~Kristin