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Cone, Richard; Johnson, Judith – 1981
The results of nine studies evaluating the effectiveness of volunteer programs in the schools were reviewed in an attempt to answer three questions: What is the value of volunteers to schools? Why do people volunteer to work in classrooms? What is the effect of volunteering on the volunteer? The studies involved were originally intended to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Motivation, Participant Satisfaction
Moore, Betty Jean – 1978
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)
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Parent Participation, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. – 1964
THE RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, ORIENTATION, AND EFFECTIVE USE OF VOLUNTEERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS ARE DISCUSSED. VOLUNTEERS WITH PROFESSIONAL SKILLS CAN SERVE AS PHYSICIANS, NURSES, TEACHERS, AND SOCIAL WORKERS. LAY VOLUNTEERS CAN RELIEVE REGULAR STAFF MEMBERS OF ROUTINE DUTIES AND INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. VOLUNTEERS…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Disadvantaged, Health Services, Medical Services
Download full textOffice of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. – 1967
PUBLISHED BY VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO AMERICA (VISTA), THIS JOURNAL ISSUE CONSISTS OF FOUR ARTICLES WHICH DESCRIBE LIFE AMONG THE URBAN AND RURAL POOR. THE ARTICLES DISCUSS (1) A SLUM AREA IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, (2) GHETTO GANGS, (3) AN ORGANIZATION OF ARCHITECTS AND LAWYERS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING SLUM HOUSING CONDITIONS IN NEW YORK CITY AND TO…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disadvantaged, Ghettos, Housing Deficiencies
National Four-H Club Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1973
The guide is intended to assist 4-H Club extension workers in recruiting volunteer adult and youth leaders. It discusses: why volunteers serve (organizational identity, desire to serve, involvement of other family members, future opportunities and obligations, community status, self interest, and public opinion); how to recruit (person-to-person…
Descriptors: Adults, Extension Agents, Guidelines, Leaders
McCormick, Virginia E. – 1974
It is important for leaders of volunteers to examine their attitudes toward their group, particularly their way of defining their group, and to bring a diversity of experience to their work. Three steps that should be taken to develop extension volunteers who are from low income groups and who will work with low income groups are: get them…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Group Dynamics, Labor Force Development, Leadership Training
Entwisle, Doris R.; Webster, Murray A. – 1970
This experiment shows that most children's expectations for their own performance, measured by their rate of volunteering, can be increased. The experiment is closely modeled after laboratory experiments with adults in formal expectation theory. White middle class suburban children of grades 1, 2, 3 and 4 participated in a story-telling task. In…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Expectation, Middle Class, Performance
Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
A randomly selected sample of 541 volunteers representing the various kinds of corrections agencies were interviewed to determine attitudes toward the correctional system. The major sections of the report represent the four substantive areas examined: (1) Who are the Volunteers?, (2) Why Are They Volunteers, (3) Volunteer Work in the Correctional…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Services, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
Gaulke, Mary F. – 1972
A pilot program, established at Griffin Creek School (Medford, Oregon) from September 1970 to June 1971, consisted of five Laubach-trained volunteer reading tutors, an experimental group of five fifth- and sixth-grade boys, and a control group of eighteen boys and girls in a regular classroom. The experimental boys, reading at a second- or…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Reading, Reading
Liston, Walter – 1973
This paper discusses the role of the free clinic in helping youth. It examines the activities of the Health Emergency Aid Dispensary (HEAD) in New Orleans, a free clinic that: (1) performs pregnancy tests; syphillis and gonorrhea tests, urinalysis for kidney ailments, PAP smears; (2) prescribes birth control; and provides rapid consultation of a…
Descriptors: Clinics, Crisis Intervention, Drug Abuse, Intervention
Hedges, Henry G. – 1972
To study the differences in teachers' time allocations to various functions when volunteers were and were not present, as well as the differences in the amount of adult time spent with individual pupils in these sessions, an experimental design was employed that included a taxonomy of classroom functions based both on a theoretical framework and…
Descriptors: Classification, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Schools, Models
Minneapolis Public Schools, Minn. – 1971
The Community Resource Volunteer Program, begun in the public elementary schools of Minneapolis in 1965, is designed for curriculum enrichment. Guidelines for initiation and administration of such a program are explained within the context of Minneapolis' experience. Additionally, questionnaires and summaries of questionnaire responses from…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Resources, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Schools
Nichols, Robert S. – 1972
The report analyzes tasks the Army must perform in the 1970's, based on current trends and the foreseeable world situations. The Army must recruit and train an all-volunteer force, develop new leadership skills, improve its morale and public image, learn better methods for internal defense operations, operate overseas, and carry out major changes…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Leadership Training, Military Personnel, Military Training
Hansen, Michael – 1968
A method of supplying consultation services to school districts is reported. The philosophy underlying this approach is that teaching front line personnel better methods and techniques of handling mental health problems will ultimately lead to true prevention by way of curricular change, changes in teaching techniques, and clearer definition of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counselor Training, Group Therapy, Mental Health
California Agency for Research in Education, Burlingame. – 1972
A study of the use of paraprofessionals in school districts in California and in a sampling of schools within these districts was conducted by the California Agency for Research in Education during the 1971/72 school year. Surveys were sent to all of the 1,117 school districts in California, and returns were received from 708 of these districts.…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, School Aides, School Personnel
