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Show Green River school cited for volunteer effort At a rt'ct'iil workshop sponsored by the Utah State Hoard of Kiiucation, Salt Lake City School District Volunteer Advisory Advi-sory Hoard, nnd the National School Volunteer IV.w-..,,, tu. 1!()0 ('Iff Klementaiy School in Green River, Utah was given the distinct honor of being designated the most outstanding school volunteer volun-teer program in the State of Utah for the 1977-78 school year. The program developed its roots several years ugo when a fifth grade teacher, teach-er, Mrs. Carol Durrant, started asking mothers to come and help their own children with some of their reading problems. This was done in order to give the students extra help in reading on a one to one bnsis. It gradually developed into using volunteers vol-unteers other than mothers moth-ers with these students. The first few years the program pertained only to reading and involved only about six or seven volunteers. volun-teers. Because of the success of this program it wus expanded to cover not only reading but math, social studies, art, speech and Phys. Ed. Inservice training sessions were held for teachers and volunteers. The program grew from six or seven volunteers to approximately approxi-mately fifty-one last year. It expanded into two kinds of volunteers; tutors and resource people, and included in-cluded volunteers spanning span-ning ages from students to senior citizens. Last year several workshops work-shops were held to train teachers and volunteers, the first being conducted by Dr. Nancy Livingston, the Slate Reading Specialist, Special-ist, and the second by Dr. Jacobs, a reading specialist special-ist from B.Y.U. On behalf of the Book Cliff Elementary School we wish to express our sincere thanks to all those volunteers who have unselfishly un-selfishly given their time and talent to make the volunteer program such a success. |
