Download or read book Volunteers in Public Schools written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most prominent of President Bush's "thousand points of light" are volunteers who work with our nation's students. The last several decades show considerable growth in the numbers of school volunteers, with increasing participation by people from the business community, retired citizens, and college students, in addition to the traditionally active mothers of school children. Yet, we must do more to ensure the success of volunteer programs in schools. It is not enough to assume that any volunteer effort will produce results, nor is it wise to use volunteers simply because they are "free." This new volume from the National Research Council provides the first overview ever compiled of volunteer activity in U.S. public schoolsâ€"reporting on how volunteers are being used in schools, what factors make programs successful, what further research will enhance our ability to create good programs, and what directions our national policy should take. Included in this study of volunteers in public schools are the reports of the committee's site visits to 13 volunteer programs identified as "exemplary" from Boston Partners in Education to "Project Rescue" for dropout prevention in Corsicana, Texas. Each site report describes local economic conditions and their effects on education, the organization and size of the school system, and the volunteer programâ€"with details on how each program functions and what results have been achieved. This book will be immediately useful to federal, state, and local policymakers, school boards and administrators, principals and teachers, PTA members, business firms involved with schools, and, of course, managers or coordinators of volunteer activities and concerned volunteers.

Download or read book Volunteers in Education written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volunteers in Education written by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of Citizen Participation and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains materials which have been developed, adapted, and utilized by school volunteer programs. Under program operation and coordination, there are: (1) plans for recruiting, speaking, and youth tutoring youth; and (2) sample application, request, and evaluation forms and guidelines for reading volunteers, school volunteer chairmen, and staff representatives. Volunteer courses, training materials, and sample exercises for developing listening and speaking skills, and learning sounds and letters are included. Publications reprinted are: "Handbook for Volunteer Services in Elementary School Libraries," tutoring guides entitled "They're Worth Your Time" and "Tutoring Tips," and a manual of word recognition techniques for use with retarded readers, "School Volunteer Reading Reference Handbook."

Download or read book Volunteers in the Schools written by United States. Office of Civilian Defense and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educational Volunteerism written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volunteer Work Informal Learning and Social Action written by Fiona Duguid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since most research on work focuses on paid work, and most literature on education concentrates on schools, it is not surprising that studies on the relations between work and learning emphasize the relations between paid employment and organized education. This unique book deals with an area that has been rarely covered in the literature on work and education: the connections between volunteer work and informal learning. Through a variety of examples, ranging from the Red Cross to teacher-labourers, from cooperatives to social housing, and from participatory democracy to environmental social movements, this volume examines the learning dimension of volunteer work in different contexts. It also considers the special case of volunteerism among recent immigrants. The case studies analyze three basic types of voluntary organizations: those providing social services, representing local communities and mobilizing for social change. The chapters include profiles of the actual work their members do and detailed accounts of the learning practices they are engaged in during their work, and the impact of such learning on their personal and professional development. The concluding chapter offers a comparative analysis, practical recommendations and steps for further research.

Download or read book Volunteers in Vocational Education written by Douglas S. Katz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book School Volunteers written by Educational Service Bureau. Administrative Leadership Service and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Select Train and Use Volunteers in the School written by Rosa Alexander Harris and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volunteers in Education Materials for Volunteer Programs and the Volunteer written by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Helping Hands written by Gayle Janowitz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook written by Jayne Cravens and published by Energize, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is virtual volunteering? It’s work done by volunteers online, via computers, smartphones or other hand-held devices, and often from afar. More and more organizations around the world are engaging people who want to contribute their skills via the Internet. The service may be done virtually, but the volunteers are real! In The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, international volunteerism consultants Jayne Cravens and Susan J. Ellis emphasize that online service should be integrated into an organization’s overall strategy for involving volunteers. They maintain that the basic principles of volunteer management should apply equally to volunteers working online or onsite. Whether you’re tech-savvy or still a newbie in cyberspace, this book will show you how to lead online volunteers successfully by: -Overcoming resistance to online volunteer service and the myths surrounding it; -Designing virtual volunteering assignments, from micro-volunteering to long-term projects, from Web research to working directly with clients via the Internet; -Adding a virtual component to any volunteer’s service; -Interviewing and screening online volunteers; -Managing risk and protecting confidentiality in online interactions; -Creating online communities for volunteers; -Offering orientation and training via Internet tools; -Recruiting new volunteers successfully through the Web and social media; and -Assuring accessibility and diversity among online volunteers. Cravens and Ellis fervently believe that future volunteer management practitioners will automatically incorporate online service into community engagement, making this book the last virtual volunteering guidebook that anyone has to write!

Download or read book It s your move written by National Student Volunteer Program and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book School Volunteers Districts Recruit Aides to Meet Rising Costs Student Needs written by Nita B. Whaley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Volunteers in Education written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Good Mother Myth written by Avital Norman Nathman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of mommy blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook, The Good Mother Myth dismantles the social media-fed notion of what it means to be a "good mother." This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding to the narrative of motherhood we don't tend to see in the headlines or on the news. From tales of mind-bending, panic-inducing overwhelm to a reflection on using weed instead of wine to deal with the terrible twos, the honesty of the essays creates a community of mothers who refuse to feel like they're in competition with others, or with the notion of the ideal mom—they're just trying to find a way to make it work. With a foreword by Christy Turlington Burns and a contributor list that includes Jessica Valenti, Sharon Lerner, Soraya Chemaly, Amber Dusick and many more, this remarkable collection seeks to debunk the myth and offer some honesty about what it means to be a mother.