The Minneapolis paraprofessional program was developed with funds from Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965. Paraprofessionals are now an integral part of the Minneapolis Public Schools. They have contributed much to the education of students and staff and to good school-community relations. The New Careers and Career Opportunities…

The purpose of this handbook is to help the teacher learn to involve school volunteers creatively and effectively in educational programs. Twelve steps are presented that teachers should take to involve volunteers effectively: (1) assess your needs, (2) talk with teachers who have worked with school volunteers, (3) request a volunteer for the…

Discusses the benefits for both schools and senior citizens of programs that actively involve senior citizen volunteers in the schools and briefly outlines some of the beneficial effects of the experimental Teaching-Learning Communities program in the Ann Arbor (Michigan) schools. Available from Association for Supervision and Curriculum…

This speech discusses three aspects of community participation used in Los Angeles junior high schools--education aides, a volunteer program, and school-community advisory councils. The author describes the roles of the three groups and discusses their effectiveness, emphasizing that successes or failures of community participation are tied to the…

THIS PAPER SUMMARIZES AND EVALUATES THE AVAILABLE LITERATURE AND RESEARCH ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHER AIDES IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. FIRST, THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE TEACHER AIDE IS DEPICTED, AS WELL AS CURRENT TRENDS IN THE UTILIZATION OF SCHOOL AIDES. THEN THE AIMS OF VARIOUS TEACHER AIDE PROGRAMS ARE DESCRIBED IN DETAIL, COVERING THE FULL RANGE…

The series "Partners in Urban Education" focuses on the most important resource available to the urban school and community-people. Parents, paraprofessionals, teachers, and principals are recognized as equal partners in the education of the urban child. The series contains one handbook for each of these partners; this document comprises the…

A study was undertaken to describe the experience of older volunteers in intergenerational programs in schools and to investigate the relationship between these volunteers' experience and life satisfaction. A cross-sectional design was used to analyze data collected from 350 senior citizen volunteers from three different sites. Data were collected…

Presents the findings of a case study of a school that embodies the essential features of the community school model, and points out some of the reasons this attempted innovation purportedly failed to achieve its goals. (Author/JM)

UNDER THE NEW CAREERS PROGRAM 16 LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS SELECTED FROM 175 APPLICANTS, WERE TRAINED AS SCHOOL-COMMUNITY WORKERS (SCW) AND ASSIGNED TO VARIOUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA. THE JOB REQUIREMENTS WERE--(1) HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR EXPERIENCE IN A DIRECT, PERSON-TO-PERSON RELATIONSHIP IN SCHOOL OR IN SOCIAL SERVICE RELATED…

Low-income community residents and Vietnam era veterans are being put to work as education auxiliaries in poverty-area schools while they study in one or more cooperating universities. The Career Opportunities Program (COP) was provided for under the Education Professions Development Act, and about 75 percent of its programs are in inner city…

During 1974-75, 86 Desegregation Counselor Aides worked in 39 desegregated Minneapolis public schools. About three-fourths of the Aides served elementary schools. Aides attempted to resolve student-student and student-teacher conflicts, to improve interracial attitudes, and to act as liaisons between schools and the neighborhoods from which…

This paper describes the Helping Our Teachers (HOT) Program, a community volunteer program started in the fall of 2000 at Julia P. Bryant Elementary School in Statesboro, Georgia. The purpose of the program is to formally organize all parent volunteers to help teachers and staff with school-related activities previously shouldered by…

The intention of this paper was to propose certain principles and strategies for the "professional" use of paraprofessionals in education. It was stated that uncredentialed persons on school district payrolls are given few genuine opportunities to interact professionally with children, parents, and helping agencies, thus creating a waste…