As part of my time volunteering at the school. There was an art project that the students were going to work on, I had the wonderful job of cutting long pieces of paper in half in order to meet the specifications for the art project. It was easy, not complicated but it just took up time. Another time I was the person who hung out all of the art projects on the wall. It was not LIFE CHANGING work, but it was something that took up time, and was nice for the kids to see there art project up on the wall.
These types of activities take up valuable time but need to be done. With all the different roles teachers take one, grunt work is part of those roles. Preparing for a lesson can take more time then actually teaching the lesson. But it is vital to being an organized, well prepared teacher. You will just be more productive at teaching if you take the time to do all the clerical and sometimes mundane tasks.
No wonder teachers appreciates parent volunteers and aids in there classroom. By being able to hand the jobs off like Cutting paper, Reorganizing an art closet, making copies, running messages ect. the teacher can then spend more time with the students in instruction and encouragement.
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