Civic-minded people in the National School Volunteer Program's 700 affiliates receive a warm welcome from students and teachers alike. (Editor)

The School Volunteer Program has made a significant contribution toward enriching and expanding the instructional opportunities available to the Miami public schools' students. During the period from September 15, 1971 to June 15, 1972, 1,237 volunteers contributed 48,358 hours to the students in 35 schools in three districts. The goals of the…

The Volunteers in Education Project is designed to utilize community volunteers to provide, without charge, various services to the school staff. Other goals are to reinforce the instruction of the teaching staff with volunteers trained for particular service, to offer individual help to students, to make available the talents and resources of the…

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…

An estimated 10,000 volunteers of all ages and backgrounds perform many kinds of jobs each year in the Dade County (Florida) school system. Recruitment and training of volunteers, organization and operation, and the various programs are described in the article. (MF)

A fifth-grade teacher in Kansas City, Missouri, wanted volunteers in her classroom--to help her individualize instruction, work with students who have emotional problems, and allow her more time to plan her instruction. But when two adults volunteered to help, she couldn't think of anything specific for them to do. Here are suggestions for…

The Carl E. Gilbert School (Buena Park, California) was officially "adopted" by Kraft Foods, Incorporated, in November 1982, creating a community partnership between business and education. Fifty-two Kraft employees volunteered to donate their time for 1 hour a week to help teachers of the kindergarten through the sixth grade. They…

The article identifies and describes a training program directed primarily toward ecology field study. It is for volunteers, mainly mothers of school children, who assist in programs where real learning does take place - in and out of the classroom. The program, how the aides help and some related problems are presented. (EB)

Five programs that use community aides to assist teachers with environmental education projects are discussed. A profile gives characteristics of the typical environmental aide. The aides tend to see themselves as "specialists" as indicated by their selection of supplementary activities. Teachers' activity listings indicate they see the aide's…

This pamphlet presents a program for training volunteer paraprofessionals in behavioral reinforcement in the classroom. The paraprofessional is to assist the teacher in providing individual attention, enhancing the learning climate, helping the individual child realize his potential and increase feeling of selfworth, and making learning a positive…

Article adapted from an address to the conference of the Canadian Council for Research in Education, January, 1969.

THIS DOCUMENT PROVIDES A DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY OF PROJECT HEAD START ACTIVITIES IN DENVER, COLORADO. THE PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE CITED AS (1) CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EXPERIENCES IN AN ENLARGED ENVIRONMENT, (2) SELF-CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SUCCESSFUL INTERACTION WITH TEACHERS AND WITH PEERS, AND (3) THE DEVELOPMENT OF…

Recent years have witnessed an accumulating volume of research in the areas of classroom management, parent training, teacher training, and training of paraprofessionals. While much of this research has demonstrated significant results experimentally, many of these approaches have yet to be adopted as part of the counseling and personnel services…

This document reports on a project aimed at developing, implementing, and evaluating a plan for using volunteer classroom aides in the Palm Beach County (Florida) schools as a means for meeting various financial, human, and community needs. The desirability of a comprehensive volunteer plan was presented in a 10-point summary by an ad hoc…

Describes the author's year as a volunteer in the writing workshop in her son's first-grade classroom. Discusses her experiences and reflects on the growth she saw in children as readers and writers. (SR)