Recruiting literacy personnel

Recruiting respected community members to lead and participate in a community literacy program is a major key to the program's acceptance and success.

Here are some prerequisites for recruiting literacy personnel:

• You need to have a well-developed program plan.

  See:	Literacy program planning

• You need to identify those who will take responsibility for the tasks listed below.

  Note:

  This could be an existing committee or a group selected especially for this purpose.

• Identify all positions to be filled.

  See:	Kinds of literacy personnel

• Develop job descriptions.

  See:	Responsibilities of literacy personnel

• Determine selection criteria.

  See:	Criteria for selecting literacy personnel

• Publicize the need for personnel, as appropriate.
• Decide on, publicize, and adhere to deadlines.
• Prepare, distribute, and review application forms.
• Schedule and conduct interviews with interested persons.
• Select the people who will fill each role.

• Kinds of literacy personnel

• Bendor-Samuel and Bendor-Samuel 1987
• Malone, S. 1991

• Task module: Recruiting literacy personnel, by Susan Malone, Angelika Marsch (contributor), Stephen L. Walter (contributor), Kenneth A. Boothe (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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