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)

The National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) provides a planning guide insert to help PTA's strengthen parent and community involvement in schools. Includes discussion of improving parent involvement in schools, activities that help parents help their children, development of parents as volunteers, steps to increase parent involvement in school…

A NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM HAS BEEN IN OPERATION SINCE 1956 TO RECRUIT, TRAIN, AND SUPERVISE LAY CITIZENS IN ASSISTING TEACHERS AND TUTORING STUDENTS ON A REGULAR WEEKLY OR BIWEEKLY BASIS DURING THE 9-MONTH SCHOOL YEAR. THE DOCUMENT DESCRIBES (1) THE STRUCTURE AND SERVICES OF THAT PROGRAM, (2) THE SELECTION OF SCHOOLS, (3) THE…

This paper argues that the present structure of foreign language education is inefficient and needs to be restructured in the direction of differentiated staffing. A model of such an organizational framework is presented, along guidelines which include: involvement of teachers in decision-making; a hierarchy based on professional, preservice, and…

The program is designed to help provide the extra help with schoolwork that educationally and economically disadvantaged children need. The project has study centers in every low-income neighborhood in Sacramento, opened at the request of an organization or agency in the area, and staffed by volunteer tutors contribute one to two hours per week to…

Jumpstart, a homegrown before-school tutoring program piloted at a Massachusetts school, has proven successful with at-risk first graders. Implemented as a low-cost alternative to Reading Recovery and Success for All programs, the 18-week action-research project employed 11 inclusion and Title I aides as volunteers. (MLH)

A survey of curriculum and instructional practices in high school classrooms (N=151) in 82 school districts serving seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) and emotionally disturbed/learning disabled students in Virginia was conducted for the purpose of identifying the roles, responsibilities, and teaching skills for which SED teachers need to be…

This paper summarizes a formative evaluation of a developmental project designed to maximize the potential use of computers in mathematics instruction through the use of volunteers. The project was conducted using a 7th-grade class at an intermediate school in Utah. Data were analyzed for 12 students in a special class for students not having the…

There are a number of ways in which parents can serve as role models in helping children to value reading, including parent-child sharing of culture through family rituals, reading aloud to children or having the children read aloud, tutoring at home and in the schools, using home learning kits for skill development and to provide a carry-over of…

TO RELIEVE THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL BURDEN UPON THE CLASSROOM TEACHER, THE QUEMADO PUBLIC SCHOOLS EXPERIMENTED WITH A TEACHER AIDE PROGRAM, UTILIZING A SINGLE TEACHER AIDE IN ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS AND HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMED MATHEMATICS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROJECT. AS A RESULT OF THE EXPERIMENT'S SUCCESS, THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR (1963-1964)…

In this paper, boards of education are urged to evaluate their policies and their performance in relation to parent and citizen involvement and to consider seriously how programs at districtwide and school levels can be improved. The emphasis in such programs should be on developing open two-way communications and full participation aimed at…

In this article, the author describes her experience teaching English as a second language to kindergarten children of varied language backgrounds. Teaching activities, classroom procedures, and materials are discussed. The basic objective of the program is to increase the children's English vocabulary and to provide cultural education. Ideas for…

During the past several decades, educators have been experimenting with a variety of humanistic innovations to enrich students' academic, social, and emotional growth. These innovations include mainstreaming, inclusion, and detracking, and their intent is to reach out to all students, especially at-risk learners. To reach out, however, requires…

The accountability movement has forced educators to expend energys during the past few years ensuring that students master a developmental sequence of skills in the major content areas. In mathematics this has resulted in an emphasis upon computational proficiency, and, in the view of many mathematics educators, not enough time has been spent on…

The accountability movement has forced educators to expend energys during the past few years ensuring that students master a developmental sequence of skills in the major content areas. In mathematics this has resulted in an emphasis upon computational proficiency, and, in the view of many mathematics educators, not enough time has been spent on…