School districts require many people to facilitate the education of students, making it important to put the right people in the right places and assure that those individuals are successful in fulfilling their job requirements. As Odden (2011) noted, education is people-intensive and schools have a need for talented people at all levels. In order…

School districts require many people to facilitate the education of students, making it important to put the right people in the right places and assure that those individuals are successful in fulfilling their job requirements. As Odden (2011) noted, education is people-intensive and schools have a need for talented people at all levels. In order…

School districts require many people to facilitate the education of students, making it important to put the right people in the right places and assure that those individuals are successful in fulfilling their job requirements. As Odden (2011) noted, education is people-intensive and schools have a need for talented people at all levels. In order…

Studied whether the presence of a teacher aide in the classroom has noticeable impact on student learning using data for more than 6,300 students in 79 Tennessee schools. Findings suggest that teachers' aides have little, if any, positive effects on student learning. Results also indicate that many aides are required to perform tasks for which…

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…

Discusses the benefits for both schools and senior citizens of programs that actively involve senior citizen volunteers in the schools and briefly outlines some of the beneficial effects of the experimental Teaching-Learning Communities program in the Ann Arbor (Michigan) schools. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum…

Describes the use of high school seniors to work individually with elementary children in order to improve the children's social behavior. Explains the steps of the program in detail. (Author)

"The Listener Program Handbook" gives basic information to counselors and volunteers who intend to participate in a volunteer listener program in an educational setting. Included are: (1) guidelines for recruitment of volunteers; (2) guidelines for orientation of volunteers, parents and students; (3) job descriptions for both counselors…

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…

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…

Suggests the following three steps for effective management of playground aides: (1) developing better screening procedures for hiring noncertified staff; (2) devising a systematic inservice training program on supervising student behavior outside of the classroom; and (3) establishing a system of school discipline that involves visible support…

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)

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…