Goshen welcomes volunteers into the district and the classrooms. Please contact
each buildings rep to ask how you can volunteer. The Goshen Board of Education does require
a criminal records check on any one who is working one on one with the students. The
school principals will determine if you as a volunteer will need to get a criminal records check.
There are a lot of ways you as a volunteer can help your child's classroom:
* Work with or tutor students
* Read with students
* Help with teacher's clerical work ( making copies, laminating, correcting papers)
* Prepare materials
* Chaperone field trips
* Chaperone dances (middle school and high school)
* help out in class with art projects
* Appear as a speaker to:
* Share my professional experience
* Share my travels
* Share my culture
* Share a talent, skill or craft
* Other types of things
You as a volunteer can help in other areas of the school:
* Publicize school events in community
* Assist in clinic
* set up/clean up for school events
* Type/data entry or do other clerical work
* Prepare newsletters
* Prepare posters, displays, bulletin boards, etc.
* Do photo coping and Laminating
* Work in libraray
* Photograph school activities
* Videotape school activities
* Greet visitor's in school office
* Minor landscaping/beautification
* Help monitor playground
* Help monitor hallways (middle/high schools)
* Teach after-school enrichment classes
You as a volunteer can work at home also:
* Donate cookies, cakes, etc.
* Sew
* Cutting papers etc.
* Desktop publishing
* Plan parties
* Make phone calls