How To Use Volunteers In The Classroom
Volunteers can be an invaluable resource for teachers! You may have the volunteers but wondering, how do I use them in the classroom? It can be overwhelming when you have people volunteering but don’t know what to have them do for you. I’m going to share how to use those volunteers in the classroom.
There are all types of parents and grandparents that would love to help but just don’t always know how or aren’t able to come in during the school day but are still willing to help.
THIS ACTIVITY WORKS WELL WITH
Volunteers in the classroom
- Make copies
- Laminate
- Hole-Punching/binding student work to make books
- Assist students with a craft project
- Put together book orders
- Help with math or reading centers
- Help in the school garden
- Assist/monitor students on the computers or iPads
- Put flyers in folders/cubbies/mailboxes
- One on one help with students that need extra help
- Be a room parent and set up class parties
- Organize/level books in the classroom library
- Prep center activities
- Sharpen pencils
- Taking down/hang up bulletin boards
- Taking down/hanging up student work
- One on one reading with students
- Guided reading groups
- Assist with lunch (huge help in the first 2 weeks of school with
kinders ).
Volunteers from home
- Cut laminated materials
- Donating items to the classroom
- Separate Scholastic magazines (why do they send them that way?)
Your once in a while volunteers that work full-time
- Be a guest/mystery reader
- Chaperone field trips
- Donating items to the classroom
- Help room parent with class parties
Now that you have a ton of ideas of different ways to use your volunteers, make sure to check my post about how to get your classroom ready for volunteers.
And if you’d like even more guidance and printables to help you along with the process, you might like our parent volunteer pack.
Do you have any other ideas of ways to use volunteers in your classroom?
See you next time!
