Parents in the Classroom – Teacher Offers Tips for Being the Best Volunteer Ever by Suzanne Lieurance

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Parents in the Classroom – Teacher Offers Tips for Being the Best Volunteer Ever by Suzanne Lieurance

As states continue to slash education budgets to accommodate declining tax revenues, schools respond by trying to squeeze even more out of their beleaguered teachers: class sizes grow, planning periods are cut, and each student gets less attention.

What can we do? Project Appleseed, a non-profit public education advocate, is asking parents across the country to lend a hand in their child’s school on Nov. 17, its 18th annual National Parent Involvement Day. Not coincidentally, it falls during American Education Week, Nov. 13-19.

“Volunteers and adult assistants in classrooms make a huge difference, especially with schools and teachers under so much stress,” says Paddy Eger, a veteran teacher, parent trainer and volunteer, and author of Educating America 101: Strategies for Adult Assistants in K-8 Classrooms.

“With a little training and a handful of strategies, most adults can effectively assist both teachers and students,” Eger says. “One hour a month or a week helping students is a small investment of time that has big returns.”

Sometimes, however, the best-intentioned volunteers become yet another pair of hands tugging for attention on the teacher’s sleeve…”
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