Tips From Pros: Senior Corps volunteers request training

Alicia Crandall of Missoula Aging Services works with Foster Grandparents and their supervisors. The Foster Grandparent program provides monthly trainings for volunteers. Based on a survey of Foster Grandparents, Crandall said Senior Corps volunteers requested training in:

Best ways to work with individual students

How to interact with students and classroom management

How to listen to a student read

Relating to students living in low income situations and building empathy

Confidentiality

Math curriculum

Autism and autism spectrum disorders

Dyslexia and learning disabilities/differences

Missoula Aging Services works to provide training their volunteers request, but teachers and volunteer supervisors can also ask any volunteer, not just a Foster Grandparent, what they could know more about to help them work better in MCPS schools.