If
you want to teach children to be responsible, you have to trust them with
responsibilities. Classroom jobs are an effective way to enlist students in the
duties of running a classroom and to let them learn personal responsibility as
well as have a personal stake in the classroom. Throughout the school year,
students will have jobs within the classroom community. These jobs will change monthly and there will be "substitutes" to provide backups when the primary helper is absent or unavailable.