About this role
QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent spelling skills
- The ability to speak before an assembly
- The ability to attend to detail
REPORTS TO
Principal
JOB GOAL
- Maximize student participation on all levels of competition
- Produce a school spelling bee winner to participate competitively in the DELCO contest
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Submit a request to Home and School for spelling bee booklets.
- Contact the Delaware County Daily Times to request the books for your school.
- Request check from Home and School and pick up books at the Delaware County Daily Times office.
- Set the date for the school spelling bee. Check with the office to see that there are no conflicting dates. January is a good time for the spelling bee.
- Select words for a pre-test. Send these to the middle school Language Arts teachers. Have them send you their top 10 scorers who agree to be in the school spelling bee.
- Establish a date for practice sessions for the students.
- Schedule custodian about the dry run day and the actual day of the spelling bee. Provide a diagram of where chairs, microphones, and table are to be set up.
- Solicit teachers to volunteer to be word caller, dictionary person, and judges.
- Arrange to video tape the spelling bee. Then request that it be shown on “Inside Interboro.”
- Arrange for pictures after the event to be sent into the local newspaper.
- Invite the 5th grade teachers to the spelling bee to watch along with the middle school
- Organize, conduct and host school spelling bee (assembly)
- Order trophies, usually a champion and first runner up.
- Select words from the booklet for the spelling been and type list. Arrange words first from the beginning list, then the intermediate list, then the advanced list.
- Contact the Paideia people who publish the spelling bee booklets and order a dictionary to accompany the booklet.
- Write an introduction for the person who does the word pronunciation.
- Send a note to the Principal informing her/him which teachers will be helping with the spelling bee; therefore their students will have to be monitored in the audience.
- Compose a letter to go home with the participants informing them of the day of the spelling bee.
- Send a thank you letter to Home and School for its support.
- Purchase gifts for the custodian and teachers who helped.
- After the spelling bee, have the winner bring in a recent picture, fill out the participation form, and mail it to the Daily Times before the deadline.
- Attend the county spelling bee to support the winners.
TIME PERIOD
Late October – Early March
POINTS
4 – (1 per school)
APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF HOURS
During the student day
During teacher day (prep period, after school):
After school hours