References selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts and pertaining to teacher aides and nonprofessional personnel (in schools, institutions, or elsewhere), particularly as related to handicapped children, are listed in the annotated bibliography, which is one in a series of over 50 similar listings concerning exceptional children. For…

Community colleges can serve teacher aides through providing low-cost opportunities to continue their education and to take courses with immediate application to their employment. Although initial employment positions require no more than a high school diploma, teacher aides are getting additional training through local certificate programs and/or…

The use of paraprofessionals has been reintroduced on a large scale into the field of professional education since the middle of 1960's. The public concern for getting their tax money's worth in quality of teaching called for federal aid to help schools hire nonprofessional teacher aides. The work of paraprofessionals in schools can be divided…

Written for personnel in early childhood education who are planning training programs for nonprofessionals, the paper outlines a program for training instructional aides who will be actively involved in the teaching process, unlike volunteers or teacher aides. Some major problems and general guidelines for training and employing nonprofessionals…

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…

After training in a direct instructional program can teacher aides teach cognitive skills in reading and arithmetic as competently as do classroom teachers who have been similarly trained? The subjects in this investigation were part of the Englemann-Becker Follow Through Program, an academic program for disadvantaged children in the early…

BY MEANS OF MAIL QUESTIONNAIRES AND CAMPUS VISITS, DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM 42 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS FOR POTENTIAL TEACHERS AND TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING ASSISTANTS. ONLY FOUR OF THE INSTITUTIONS SURVEYED REPORTED CONTINUING, SYSTEMATIC RECRUITMENT EFFORTS, THE OTHERS DEPENDING ON INFORMAL TEACHER-STUDENT CONTACTS.…

This document discusses the educational aide program in the state of Ohio. Section I discusses the paid educational aide. The goal of the paid teacher aide program is to improve instruction; the objectives of the program are: (1) teachers will spend more time directly involved in significant high-level teaching and learning functions; (2) teachers…

Describes the Ethnic Program, a bilingual early childhood program in Adelaide, Australia, which utilizes ethnic staff as mediators in kindergartens with a significant number of children of ethnic minority origin. (CM)

Describes successful volunteer programs that use parents to help expand curriculum, improve academic achievement, and free teachers to make better use of their teaching time. Includes a list of key elements to consider when setting up such programs. (MD)

Two tables provide data, by geographic region, for average hours and weeks worked and for pay rates of teacher aides for 1982-83. The first is for instructional aides; the second for noninstructional aides. (TE)

Hiring paraprofessionals from the community is a way of providing leadership within the community. The paraprofessionals who were yesterday's welfare recipients are today earning money. (Author)

Reports on a federal grant given to Maryland's Prince George's County to explore use of instructional aides in secondary schools as a means of carrying out desegregation plan. (DS)