Co-op Responsibilities

We are so excited that you have decided to join us at our homeschool co-op. You may not have previous experience with a co-op, but it is just a fancy name for a place where people work together for a common benefit. We at Discovery Days believe that homeschooling kids can be done so that all the families who participate get to contribute to the work of making Discovery Day the best homeschool co-op possible.

One thing that is important to us is providing a time for our participants to build relationships and bond with other parents in the community. Therefore we strive to give each parent a free period to do just that. Assistants who attend all four sessions will assist in three to provide a free period for socializing time.  If a family is only there for three classes, they will need to assist in all three, so in order for the parent to have a free period to attend Mom’s Group or socialize with others, a family will need to register to attend all four sessions.

Assistant role – An assistant is described as someone whose role does not require time spent outside of our scheduled co-op sessions.   Many of our assistants fall into two categories; either they are assisting in classes or they are helping in some other support role, such as clean-up, study hall, substituting for teachers or some other task needed to keep our co-op a success.

Teacher role – A teacher is described as someone who prepares for Discovery Days outside of the scheduled co-op session . Therefore, the teacher can either teach a class or do some type of administrative work  that takes time outside of Discovery Days. This includes things such as yearbook,  housekeeping administration, and attendance administration.

Teachers have the option to teach one or two classes. If you teach two classes, you have no other commitments throughout the day.   If you teach one class, we ask you to also assist or help in some kind of small supportive role for two other sessions.  Co-teaching situations are handled differently; if you are co-teaching two classes you will still be asked to work during one more session in an assisting or supporting role.