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Parents in the Classroom - Teacher Offers Tips for Being the Best Volunteer Ever by Suzanne Lieurance
Parents in the Classroom - Teacher Offers Tips for Being the Best Volunteer Ever by Suzanne Lieurance
TAPPAN, NY, November 13, 2011 /Travel PR News/ -- 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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