Did you know... ...that we had over 1200 children at the Indiana State Homeschooling Convention in 2004?! We greatly depended on our 130+ workers. We need your help again this year to help make our conferences successful!

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Teacher
  As a teacher you will instruct and lead a group of up to 15 children through the hands-on curriculum. Working with a co-leader who helps to keep the children in order by assisting with crafts, and taking children to the restroom and for water breaks. You are ultimately responsible for the small group schedule. As a team you will teach the children the lessons through stories, object lessons, crafts, and games. The curriculum can be downloaded or e-mailed to you, and a hard copy will be available upon your arrival at the conference for Teacher Training.
• Co-leader
  A co-leader assists each teacher with the responsibilities in a small group. Your job is to keep the children in order and help implement the direction of the teacher. Assisting with crafts, games, stories, large group review and the occasional restroom break, you are vital to the success of the team.
• Runner
  A runner is assigned to a section. Each section has a Section Leader who will make sure that they are doing their job. Their job is to pass out craft supplies, take children to the restroom, and help the teachers out as best as they can.  If they can't answer a question, they send the section leader to the team and have them do it. Our goal is to make things as easy as possible for the teachers that way it's less stressful for them and then they can teach more effectively.
• Section Leader
  A section leader heads up a section of teams, making sure that the runners in their group are staying on task and the teacher's needs are being met. When a responsibility is falling through the cracks the section leader is to step in and do the job the runner has neglected. The section leader makes sure everything in your section is running smoothly. This makes it easier on the teachers and therefore they can spend more time giving the children their undivided attention.
  

Requirements

• Age Requirements:
  We ask that our volunteers are at least 13 years old.  Young adults ages 13- 14 can work as runners. Young adults ages 15 and up can work as teachers and co-leaders. Our goal for section leaders is 18 and up.
• Attitude and Behavior:
  We ask that all the teachers stay positive throughout the conference. Realize that most of the children aren't used to being in large groups of strangers without their parents there for their "comfort blanket". It's up to you to make them feel welcome and comfortable in the setting that they are being placed into.  We ask that you participate in all that goes on.  The children look up to you. If what is going on is "fun" to the teachers then the children will have fun also. Although you may feel that the motions are "below you", realize that if you don't do them, then the children won't either. Please keep a smile on your face and always remember that you want the children to see Jesus in you.
• Dress:
  Uniforms vary from conference to conference and you will be told at least 3 weeks in advanced exactly what the uniform is for your conference. However, our standards for dress remain the same.
  - We ask that young men wear long slacks and appropriate shirts.
  - We ask that young ladies wear appropriate skirts or relaxed pants, whatever would be most appropriate for you and your family. Keep in mind that you will be sitting on the floor with children and be involved in physical activities such as relays, obstacle course, tug-o-war, etc (Ultimately, we defer to your parents on this part of the dress code).
• Authority:
  If you sign up to work with us, you are agreeing to obey and follow all of our standards.  If you are acting inappropriately please know that we will address you on the issue. We don't make that our goal and we trust that we won't have to address you on your conduct.

• The inspiration of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of God. That all scripture is profitable for instruction and reproof.
• The Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• The deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. His substitutionary atonement for sin, his bodily resurrection and his personal, visible return to earth to reign in righteousness and glory.
• The person of the Holy Spirit, and his work of conviction, regeneration, and sanctification; who indwells every believer.
• The necessity of the new birth, in salvation by faith in Jesus Christ alone and the importance of a life fully committed to the will of God in Christ.
• The everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved with God in heaven, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the unsaved in hell.
• The institution of believer's baptism as a statement of faith and regeneration to the unsaved and fellow believers.
• The call on all believers to be ministers of the gospel through the great commission to go into all the world.