A discussion of a six-week summer workshop for prospective teachers and aides which, it is felt, provides valuable preliminary training for high-potential applicants. (RY)

Explains the need for an expert in quelling violence and explains how this expert would operate. (Author)

Approximately 400 black children from the inner city are bused to West Hartford suburban schools. (Author)

Discusses opportunities for higher education for employees in Head Start centers, provided through the Head Start Supplementary Training program. (NH)

Describes project designed to enhance the elementary core French program through presentations of history, culture, and life-style of French-speaking peoples by noncertified Francophones from the vicinity. Project has been successful and has produced a more tolerant outlook among students for other cultures. Uses foods of France and early life in…

Describes a writing program that uses lay readers from the community to help correct student writing assignments and instruct in writing skills. (IRT)

The author offers guidelines for teaching volunteers and aides as classroom tutors. It is suggested that the tutor be instructed in administering pretests to students. Materials needed for tutoring are outlined, a simple teaching sequence is offered, and tutor supervision is mentioned. (SBH)

Training methods for the preparation of teacher aides are described. (LH)

Discusses five functions intrinsic to the work of the bilingual paraprofessional: informer, supporter, model, supervisor, and advocate. (BF/JH)

Interviews with 18 headteachers and 27 teachers and 4 school case studies in Northern Ireland found that teachers' role as managers and facilitators has increased, creating greater need for teacher aides. It is largely the teachers' responsibility to foster assistants' skills. In most schools, auxiliary support was concentrated on the youngest…

The article offers suggestions for recruiting, training, utilizing, scheduling, and retaining senior citizen volunteers in the special education classroom. (DB)

In this article, an interview with paraeducator Joyce Hinckley is presented. Hinckley discusses her 15-year career as a paraeducator, how she became involved with the field, and gives advice to teachers working with paraeducators. She is the mother of five children and grandmother of eight. She has lived in farming communities for most of her life.

The purpose of this study is to examine the strengths that biliterate paraprofessionals bring to the teaching workforce. Paraprofessionals, such as teachers' aides, are commonly used in classes for English-language learners. Because of the pending teacher shortage for English-language learners, a variety of teacher preparation programs have been…

A study utilized survey and case-study techniques supplemented by examination of documents to facilitate a sociopolitical investigation of the concept and role of ethnic teacher aides in state schools in Victoria, Australia. A theoretical framework was developed, combining an historical sociology of knowledge with a systems management perspective.…