Working+with+Helpers

Working with Helpers These are some ideas about working with helpers.

Student Helpers
 * Staff Badges: Use lanyards with id pockets and design colorful inserts for student workers.
 * MC Crew: To get student volunteers, involve the upper grades by creating the "MC Crew" (Media Center). Type up a contract listing the responsibilities of the job and ask the students to have his/her homeroom teacher and a parent sign it, along with the student's signature.

Volunteers
 * Training Volunteers: To help parent volunteers, type up instruction sheets for the most common tasks: creating and applying a spine level, stamping or putting labels on media, covering book jackets. These instruction sheets include a list of needed materials and tools, step by step instructions, and a sample of the finished product.
 * Fast Reading Level: There are many online sites that publish reading levels; often some books are not listed. Parent helpers can quickly type a paragraph into a Word document and hit spell check. At the end of spell check, the Flesch-Kincaid Reading level appears.