This resource guide is a teacher's handbook to locating persons in the community who are willing, upon request, to talk with students in grades one through twelve on subjects being taught in the schools. The guide also informs the teacher as to what tours or field trips are available and lists alphabetically 279 different topics for which…

This bilingual glossary is part of the Peace Corps Program and Training Journal Reprint Series, which is an attempt to provide technical support to Peace Corps volunteers and to share its material on "intermediate technology" with other participants in the international development community. The glossary consists of an English-Spanish…

The article recounts the intellectual excitement and stimulating participation characteristic of the early Council of National Organizations' (CNO) programs, and challenges today's adult educators to provide educational programs that will develop leadership to meet society's needs--one of CNO's early thrusts. (Author/AJ)

Describes an alternative career education program for high school seniors where independent study contracts send students into the community to explore careers and seek information as volunteer workers. (DW)

To help Georgia school administrators, educators, and community members, this handbook suggests ideas and plans for strengthening school-community relations and increasing community involvement in schools. The first section lays out the four steps district administrators should take in developing a systemwide community involvement program,…

The volunteer shelter bed program development guidelines in this booklet are offered as a community-based alternative to the institutionalization of status offenders. The volunteer shelter bed program is described as a nonsecure residential alternative for status offenders, which can be implemented without the creation of new facilities or the…

A discussion between the leaders of four teacher centers is presented. Participants came from Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Burlington (Wisconsin). The Detroit and Philadelphia centers are school-district supported, serving teachers in multiracial, low-income schools throughout the cities. The Chicago and Burlington centers are independent,…

The training program is one of the most important and least standardized programatic units. It is important to keep in mind that various volunteers cannot be mass produced into professional social workers, psychologists or counselors by six-, eight- or 10-week courses. It is essential that the trainer integrate the key concepts presented and…

A handbook for workshop leaders of the Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA), is presented. The leaders present LVA's Tutor Training workshops. Contents concern the following: qualifications required of workshop leaders; the needs of workshop trainees and methods to meet their needs; the basic tools that the workshop leader must understand…

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 USE OF INDIGENOUS VOLUNTEERS IN A REHABILITATION LIVING UNIT FOR DISTURBED COLLEGE STUDENTS IS DESCRIBED. VOLUNTEERS ARE OF BOTH SEXES AND INCLUDE LOWER- AND UPPERCLASSMEN WITH A DIVERSITY OF MAJORS. THEY LIVE IN A COEDUCATIONAL REHABILITATION UNIT WITHIN A RESIDENCE HALL WITH A POPULATION (CLIENTS) REFERRED BY COUNSELORS AND THE PSYCHIATRIC…