{"id":137,"date":"2014-08-17T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:15:04","slug":"inviting-assistants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2014\/08\/17\/inviting-assistants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Assistants into Your Classroom Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to select activities you are comfortable handing over to an assistant. Check out my book , <em>Actively Igniting Your Classroom with 101 Strategies for Adult Assistants,<\/em> for extensive details on using adult assistants. Then decide: do you see any actitivities as a small group task? a mini-course?\u00a0 a procurement function? a classroom housekeeping task? Also, have you selected tasks that your potential volunteers have interest in? Use an\u00a0\u00a0inventory to gather that information (book, p.159).<\/p>\n<p>Next, organize your initial one-hour information-sharing and planning meeting for adults.<\/p>\n<p>1. List your goals, guidelines and rules. Briefly go over these with enough details to make your needs known to the adults.<\/p>\n<p>2. Share the time slots and length of activity you plan to make available to small groups.<\/p>\n<p>3. Demonstrate your organization of materials for the assistants. One easy way is a tub or tote that will hold each activity folder (lesson plan,\u00a0work sheets, student names,\u00a0evaluation and comment form) as well as \u00a0basic supplies (pencils, paper, ruler, scissor, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Adding adults takes time and planning, but once they are in place, you&#8217;ll be able to add enhancements and student support not possible when you work alone. Contact me at Paddy@paddyeger.com for further one-on-one suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to select activities you are comfortable handing over to an assistant. Check out my book , Actively Igniting Your Classroom with 101 Strategies for Adult Assistants, for extensive details on using adult assistants. Then decide: do you see any actitivities as a small group task? a mini-course?\u00a0 a procurement function? a classroom housekeeping\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2014\/08\/17\/inviting-assistants-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[138,67,139],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teacher-tips","tag-goals","tag-guidelines","tag-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}