Internal Candidates Only: Spelling Bee Coordinator - Glenolden School

Job Title

Maximize student participation on all levels of competition

Produce a school spelling bee winner to participate competitively in the DELCO contest

Qualifications:

• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent spelling skills
• The ability to speak before an assembly
• The ability to attend to detail

Reports To:

Principal

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 bee 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