Our school is fairly new and the staff are all wonderful people to work with.
After sending out staff surveys and parent surveys, the problem is two-fold.
One: Parents are just not comitted
(this comes from the staff).
That is an issue I'm not willing to attack right now. BUT there are many regular, comitted volunteers just waiting for their next project. These are the ones I work with regularly. :cool:
Two: (this is the one I need most help with!) The teachers don't quite seem to know how to use these volunteers. The planning for them, how to use them and how to keep them busy enough to keep them involved but not so busy that they burn out. :confused:
After talking with a teacher, she suggested some sort of teacher training - some way to help the teachers learn how to maximize their parent resources. Does anyone know of a way to do this?