{"id":7568,"date":"2013-08-20T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/job-descriptions\/roomrepresentative\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:46:19","slug":"roomrepresentative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/job-descriptions\/roomrepresentative\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Description for Room Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/downloads.capta.org\/toolkit\/jd\/RoomRepresentative.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the Room Representative Job Description<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key Role \u2013 Room Representative<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Works with teacher(s) and parents\/guardians\/caregivers, as a volunteer contact and liaison, to build stronger family-school partnerships for a classroom or grade level<\/li>\n<li>Encourages easy, two-way communication between teacher(s) and families on what\u2019s happening in the classroom to support student success<\/li>\n<li>Collaborates with the teacher(s) to identify how families can assist with classroom activities<\/li>\n<li>Recruits volunteers and determines volunteer assignments for a classroom or grade level<\/li>\n<li>Helps to promote PTA goals, membership and activities on campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Getting Started<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Preparation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Talk to the Room Representative from last year about what worked well in working with teacher(s) and families. Review their procedure book and other materials to better understand the scope of your new position. Learn more about your role and school policies related to family engagement at a meeting organized by the Room Representative Coordinator at your school.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meet with Teacher(s)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Get together with the teacher(s) to talk about the various ways and options available for family members to assist with classroom activities, field trips and celebrations for the upcoming year. Develop a list together of volunteer opportunities to share with families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>How Tos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Contacts\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Create a list of parents\u2019\/guardians\u2019\/caregivers\u2019 names and contact information. Work with the teacher(s) to obtain this information for PTA use only and remember to keep it confidential.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Welcome<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Develop and implement an inclusive outreach plan to introduce yourself, welcome families in home languages and provide a general overview of why family engagement matters at school and in the home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Survey<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Distribute a volunteer survey, listing volunteer opportunities, to families to share their availability, skills and interests with you and to sign up for classroom activities. Offer a range of volunteer options with different amounts of time and commitment to encourage inclusion and to respect work schedules.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delegate<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Assign volunteer jobs and maintain a database of volunteers\u2019 interests, skills and availability to use throughout the school year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Connect<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Communicate regularly with families using multiple pathways \u2013 emails, phone calls, text messaging, websites and social media as well as newsletters and backpack flyers \u2013 to keep families in the loop on upcoming class or grade level activities and to grow family-school partnerships for student success.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Learn more:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capta.org\/\"><strong>capta.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the Room Representative Job Description Key Role \u2013 Room Representative Works with teacher(s) and parents\/guardians\/caregivers, as a volunteer contact and liaison, to build stronger family-school partnerships for a classroom or grade level Encourages easy, two-way communication between teacher(s) and families on what\u2019s happening in the classroom to support student success Collaborates with the teacher(s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":4231,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12011,"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7568\/revisions\/12011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolkit.capta.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}