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Download full textSalt Lake City School District, UT. – 1992
The SMILES (Senior Motivators in Learning and Educational Services) program was initiated in 1977 by Salt Lake City School Volunteers, Inc., a nonprofit organization working with the Salt Lake City School District, as an addition to an established, successful school volunteer program. The purpose of the SMILES program is to recruit and train older…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intergenerational Programs, Older Adults, Program Descriptions
McCain, Lewis; Wurster, Stanley R. – 1976
This paper presents a program which involves the recruitment and training of college students as counselor-aides in elementary schools. The function of the counselor-aides is to provide the necessary screening, testing and preliminary follow-up contact to facilitate the work of the professional staff. Some of the general goals for the…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling Services, Counselor Training, Demonstration Programs
PDF pending restorationMangieri, John N.; Readence, John E.
A successful, flexible, system for coordinating volunteers in the Meigs, Ohio, local school district's elementary schools utilizes a file box containing the names of aides selected to participate in the volunteer program, the times and days they are available, and the services they can provide. A teacher needing a volunteer to perform certain…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Elementary Education
Foley, Eileen Carroll – Equity and Choice, 1985
Describes the unexpected benefits of a reading incentives program in which adult volunteers listen to students' oral book reports in a one-to-one situation. Benefits include (1) oral skill development, (2) increased student confidence, (3) heightened interpersonal understanding between members of different racial groups and generations. (SA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Incentives, Independent Reading, Interpersonal Relationship
Chan, Tak Cheung; Martin, Karen – 2001
This paper describes the Helping Our Teachers (HOT) Program, a community volunteer program started in the fall of 2000 at Julia P. Bryant Elementary School in Statesboro, Georgia. The purpose of the program is to formally organize all parent volunteers to help teachers and staff with school-related activities previously shouldered by…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Support, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. School of Education. – 1976
This document describes a five-week program designed to assist and train paraprofessionals in the classroom. Goals of the program include the following: That paraprofessionals and community volunteers become more effective and knowledgeable about their students, about teacher relationships, their role, school functioning, and more accepted as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Child Development, Classroom Techniques
