Briefly reports some findings of a survey of elementary principals involved in the California Early Childhood Education experiment. (IRT)

Paid or volunteer assistants can help a teacher in several ways. They can give students positive reinforcement and can help them correct their work. Assistants can also perform specific tutorial tasks including directing oral reading, assisting with phonics and sight vocabulary, and helping students improve their comprehension. (TJ)

THE HISTORY OF SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN IN NEW JERSEY IS BRIEFLY PRESENTED. DURING 16 YEARS OF OPERATION, THE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED FOR OVER 2,000 CHILDREN. SPECIAL SERVICES INCLUDE CARE OF PUPILS FROM 2 TO 15 YEARS OF AGE, HOT LUNCHES, DENTAL CARE, HEALTH SERVICES, AND A NURSE ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES. ALL TEACHERS, FULLY CERTIFIED,…

CHANGES IN THE CONCEPTS OF "SCHOOL DAY" AND "SCHOOL YEAR" MUST BE MADE BEFORE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN TO THE PLACE OF THE SUBPROFESSIONAL IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL. THE SUBPROFESSIONAL MAY ASSUME A VARIETY OF ROLES--HOMEWORK HELPER, STUDY CENTER MONITOR, TEAM TEACHING ASSISTANT, AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT MANAGER, COMMUNITY…

TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER, CHARACTERISTICS, AND ACTIVITIES PERFORMED BY NONCERTIFIED PERSONNEL SERVING AS TEACHER AIDES IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS (EXCLUDING NEW YORK CITY), QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 629 OF THE 740 CHIEF SCHOOL OFFICERS IN THE STATE (85 PERCENT) WERE TALLIED. MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS REPORTED THE USE OF TEACHER AIDES. FROM AN 85 PERCENT…

THE COORDINATED EFFORTS OF A TEAM OF EDUCATORS FROM THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, AND PERSONNEL AT FOUR SCHOOLS IN THE BLOOMINGTON METROPOLITAN SYSTEM TO PROVIDE TEACHER AIDE EXPERIENCES FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJORS AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEACHING PROGRAM THROUGH CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, WORK WITH INDIVIDUAL PUPILS, SMALL-GROUP…

Reported are the responses of 27 Associated Community Teams (ACT) Harlem Domestic Peace Corpsmen to an interview following their training (18 consecutive days) to prepare them to work as assistant teachers in the After School Project in the autumn of 1964. Personal data on the Corpsmen and their responses to various questions about the tutoring…

This document presents a 2-year post-high school curriculum for paraprofessional school personnel. This document is divided into five sections, which are teacher aide programs, curriculum, course outlines, bibliography, and appendix. Section one discusses some considerations of the program, occupational opportunities, aides and their work, special…

The Teacher Assisting Program in NUSTEP has three major purposes: (a) blending theory and practice so that a prospective teacher can become acquainted with and instructed in a variety of important principles of learning and teaching and at the same time experience those same principles in learning/teaching situations; (b) providing prospective…

The use of paraprofessionals in new career positions in public schools has spread rapidly. Measurements of reading readiness and achievement indicate that teacher aides trained in tutoring improve pupil performance. The utilization of students for cross-age teaching, parents to read to children, and community members as "street academics" is…

This paper idsucsses the J. Lloyd Trump (NAASP) model of differentiated staffing and compares it with that of Dwight Allen (Stanford University.) The general rewards and pitfalls of differentiated staffing are discussed, and the author concludes that although these two models have served as the basis for all significant differentiated staffing…

The conclusions of various studies on the use of paraprofessionals or teacher aides are presented. Although the studies produced little statistical data, logs and reports of numerous teachers and paraprofessionals were used as the basis for this paper. It is suggested that the role of the paraprofessional ultimately depends on his own background…

Summaries are given of the results of a two-year feasibility study of the effectiveness of the lay-reader program in helping students improve their writing skills. The findings of the two-year study show that: (1) there was no significant difference statistically among students who had lay reader service and those who had participated in other…

This report focuses on the differences in work relations between teachers and teacher aides and between social workers and social service aides, using data obtained from in-depth interviews, classroom observations, and meetings at two Head Start centers. Center One, which is church sponsored, has two classrooms and 60 children, with two teachers,…