Since 1970, the Migrant Child Teacher and Aide Institute has introduced approximately 175 Arizona teachers and 50 aides to new curriculum concepts in the areas of oral language development, reading, and individualized instruction. Jointly selected by the building principal, school superintendent, and the State Director of Migrant Education,…

The Fourth Region 1971 Workshop, sponsored by Project VOICE, was one of two regional conferences concerned with voluntary opportunities for inspiring coordinators for education. Main sessions of the conference provided the background, current information and projections about volunteerism in education. Main sessions of the conference provided the…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP) is a nationwide program established under the Education Professions Development Act of 1967 to train and employ low-income community residents and Vietnam-era veterans as educational auxiliaries for poverty area schools. Indiana University at South Bend (IUSB), in cooperation with the South Bend Community…

This paper discusses the use of ancillary personnel, professionals and paraprofessionals providing supportive services to the classroom teacher, and the skills and strategies teachers will need in order to use support services wisely. The contents include: "Working with Adults," which discusses the need for teachers to adopt an interdisciplinary…

Proceedings of a 3-day workshop are reported. The workshop, stressing the need for and the role of volunteers in the "Right-to-Read" program, was sponsored by the Washington Technical Institute under an EPDA grant. Topics for major addresses included the role of the volunteer, training of volunteers and the responsibility for such training, and a…

This document contains a program description, curriculum outlines, and evaluation of the 2-week summer preservice program (June 15-26, 1970) to train 30 teacher aides who would support teachers, allowing opportunity to personalize and individualize instruction for children. The program operation, objectives, and procedures for selecting trainees…

Volunteer reading aides in the District of Columbia became aware of certain inadequacies suffered by the children with whom they worked. The children had no books of their own, school libraries were inadequate and sometimes nonexistent, public libraries were not easily accessible to the children, etc., etc. A proposal made by one of the…

In a Behavior Analysis classroom the first step is to define instructional objectives for academic or social skills. The second step is to determine how much the child already knows about what is to be taught. An Entry Behavior Inventory and diagnostic tests help teachers decide where each child needs to begin working in the sequence leading to…

In order (1) to determine how auxiliaries (lay readers and instructional, clerical, and housekeeping aides) were used in secondary English departments, (2) to determine the reasons for English departments discontinuing the use of auxiliaries, and (3) to evaluate the way auxiliaries were used, questionnaires were sent to two groups: schools using…

Five staff members of the Educational Consulting Center contributed seven papers to this text for training teacher-aides. "Teacher-Aides; An Overview" concerns qualifications, training, duties, placement, a code of ethics, and employment practices. "The Disadvantaged Child" discusses self-concept, its development, and its improvement. "The Climate…

A conference was conducted which had as its prime purpose the consideration of how to move the employment of subprofessionals from concept to greater actuality in the fields of health, education, and welfare. This report consists of a summary of the discussions that took place in the course of the meeting, an evaluation of the conclusions reached…

This conference report, which includes the findings of the Bank Street College of Education survey on the use of paraprofessionals in education, traces the development of paraprofessionals in the classroom from the Depression era until the present time. While their early use was seen as an aide to the teacher, recent use is seen as part of an…

This document summarizes and interprets the findings of a study of teacher aide programs operating in 19 school districts throughout the country. An in-depth interview approach was used with teachers, administrators, parents, and paraprofessional aides in each district. ("Paraprofessionals" are here defined as those who perform functions…

The introductory chapter of this booklet describes the problems which ESEA Title 1 funds (over a billion dollars to local school districts) were intended to help solve. Each of five chapters is devoted to descriptions of a number of specific Title I projects, presented as examples of what local school districts might undertake in improving the…

The Florida Parent Education Model, working with 5- to 7-year-olds enrolled in Follow Through programs, is based on the premise that a child's home environment has the most lasting influence on his adaptation to school and to the world around him. The program works with the mother, who, as educators are discovering, has more influence on the child…