"How can you help students most effectively in the classroom?" As a Teaching Assistant, you play a vital role in today's schools. This fully updated new edition will help you get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning. This accessible text, building on the success of a…

This book concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both inside and outside the classroom. The book is divided into the following chapters: (1)…

A special education teacher discusses ways to use aides effectively. Suggestions include discussing the daily schedule with the aide, providing time to review the day's activities, following a lesson with instruction in two smaller groups (one led by the aide), and using the aide to help with paperwork and discipline. (CL)

This three-part guide explains to elementary teachers how to recruit, train, and effectively use aides and volunteers in the classroom. (SJL)

Communication between the teacher and paraprofessional who implement the handicapped child's individualized education program can be enhanced through preacademic year planning (of classroom arrangement and the assignment of responsibilities, the holding of regularly scheduled meetings, on the spot communication, and written communication (such as…

Guidelines are provided for integrating the dependent handicapped student (DHS) into the regular school in Alberta, Canada. A short overview comprises the introduction. Identified are two types of integration: (1) incidental contact and (2) planned contact for social, recreational, and educational activities with other students. Noted are types of…

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to prepare laboratory aide instructors to teach behind-the-wheel instruction to beginning drivers. The guide is designed with 12 specific instructional lessons to be conducted in conjunction with the scheduled driver education program. Each lesson follows a typical format that includes the following…

Explains how a student volunteer can improve teachers' productivity, efficiency, and teaching skills. Presents a description of job responsibilities.(EL)

Intended as a guide to aid inservice teachers and school administrative personnel in developing an effective program for the utilization of school volunteers, this document discusses the merits of a volunteer program and provides concrete suggestions for program design and implementation. Five steps towards a volunteer program delineated by the…

Practical suggestions for the use of volunteers in the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom, and strategies for planning the volunteer role, are offered. Nine potential roles for the volunteer are outlined, with specific recommendations for activities and topic areas that the volunteer can undertake. These include: classroom monitor,…

The Pre-Professional Laboratory Experience course is a semester-long early field experience involving prospective teacher education candidates in routine classroom activities and observation experiences on the elementary and secondary level. The set of handbooks which was developed to accompany the course includes a student handbook, a supervising…

This curriculum guide suggests activities and educational experiences within a Hawaiian cultural context for Grade 2 students in Hawaiian schools. First, an introduction discusses the contents of the guide; the relationship of the classroom teacher and the kupuna (Hawaiian-speaking elder); the identification and scheduling of kupunas; and how to…

This handbook, which is designed to promote cooperation between classroom teachers and teacher aides, discusses the role of the aide, aides' understanding of children, communication and learning, the classroom environment, and evaluation of job performance. The section on the role of the teacher aide includes an organizational chart of the school…

This handbook has been prepared for the proctor at a school using the Hewlett-Packard Mathematics Drill and Practice Program. Procedures are given for supervising students, maintaining the terminals, and supplying information to others concerned with the program. Contents include: (1) introduction; (2) starting the drill and practice program; (3)…

This guidebook is specifically designed for volunteers involved in helping children learn to read. Originally published in 1965, this new edition focuses on reading education as it is expected to be in the 1980s. The information included takes a volunteer from the first meeting through diagnosis and treatment of specific problems to feedback,…