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In-Person Training

The Center's hands-on trainings equip directors, coordinators and trainers with the skills and the knowledge to design and implement effective out-of-school time programs for children, K-12.

  • Professional development to fit your schedule
  • Multi day, full day, half day
  • Online learning
  • Conference workshops
  • Content and curriculum
  • Credit bearing coursework

 

Afterschool Education: Essentials of Practice

Training Time: 3 - 6 hours

Fundamentals and how-to of afterschool education, with techniques and tools for linking with school day content while keeping an engaging afterschool style. Grades K-12

Essentials of Practice helps all staff and directors:

  1. Understand teaching and learning afterschool style
  2. Blend school day content into afterschool style activities and projects
  3. Plan for deliberate learning
  4. Demonstrate learning and progress

Coordinated Guidebook: Academic Content, Afterschool Style: A Notebook and Guide

Do-It-Yourself Staff Development

Training time: 1.5 - 3 hours

Step-by-step guide for designing and delivering your own in-house trainings, even with limited time and resources.

Do-It-Yourself Staff Development helps directors:

  1. Efficiently and effectively train staff, even with limited time
  2. Use research-based techniques to engage staff in their own learning
  3. Make ongoing staff development a key part of quality building program

Coordinated Guidebook: Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff

Engaging Older Youth

Training time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Fresh ideas to tackle the diverse interests and needs of high school youth through homework support, 21st Century skill building, and more. Grades 8-12

Engaging Older Youth helps all staff and directors:

  1. Create programming that middle and high school students will want to attend
  2. Examine afterschool programming with a youth development, learner-centered lens
  3. Use portfolios for credit-recovery, work-study, and service learning

Coordinated Guidebook: Learning in Action Project Pack

English Language Learning in Afterschool: It’s More Than Just Talk

Training Time: 1.5 hours - Full Day

Core principles of language learning, activities, and techniques every staff member can use to boost English language learning-at all levels-in afterschool programs. Grades K-12

It's More Than Just Talk helps all staff and directors:

  1. Learn stages of language development
  2. Create activities that build English language skills
  3. Foster relationships between learners and native speakers
  4. Improve communication with English language learners and families

This training can be customized for directors, trainers, and lead staff to fit varying needs, experience levels, and time frames. May also be conducted as a series over time, with online coaching or as training of trainers.

Coordinated Guidebook: More Than Just Talk: English Language Learning (Coming Summer 2011)

Evaluation: From Obligation to Opportunity

Training time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Practical approach to tailoring program evaluation to program goals, and translating data into realistic improvement plans.

Evaluation: From Obligation to Opportunity helps directors:

  1. Match program activities to program goals
  2. Gather appropriate data to assess outcomes
  3. Use evaluation data for on-going program improvement

Recommended Resource: Quality Assurance System® (QAS®)

Global Learning with GraffitiWall

Training time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Adaptable quick, easy games and activities that any staff member can do on poster paper to get kids thinking about, connecting to and learning from the world around them. Grades 4-11

Global Learning with GraffitiWall® helps all staff:

  1. Learn with kids about the diversity within their own programs
  2. Create, adapt, and expand games with global content
  3. Create world-themed projects and other long-term activities

Coordinated Guidebook: Global GraffitiWall

GraffitiWall: Fast Games for Learning

Training time: 1 - 1.5 hours

Center's signature approach of fast, easy-to-make guessing games, puzzles, and activities posted on the wall to quickly engage kids of all ages. Grades 3-10

GraffitiWall helps all staff:

  1. Maximize fun and improve social skills while reinforcing learning
  2. Boost learning in transition times, homework time, and pick-up
  3. Jumpstart projects and other long-term activities

Coordinated Guidebook: GraffitiWall®

Involving Families in Your Program

Training time: 1.5 hours

Strategies to engage families, the community and children of diverse backgrounds to increase awareness and understanding of different languages, cultures and ways of life. Grades K-12

Involving Families in Your Program helps all staff and directors:

  1. Build awareness of family engagement strategies
  2. Improve communication with all families
  3. Tips for engaging families of diverse cultures and backgrounds

Coordinated Guidebooks: Global GraffitiWall

Linking with the School Day

Training Time: 1.5 - 3 hours

High-quality programs collaborate with schools and their staff. Gain tools and strategies to develop stronger partnerships with schools and better support students' academic development.

Linking with the School Day helps all staff and directors:

  1. Better understand and support school day goals
  2. Create more effective partnerships with school day teachers and staff
  3. Design afterschool-style programming infused with school day academic standards

Coordinated Guidebook: Academic Content, Afterschool Style: A Notebook and Guide

Maximizing Youth Voice and Choice

Training time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Take-home-and-use strategies to involve children in meaningful ways to develop and conduct programming that also builds confidence, leadership, independence, and skills. Grades 3-12

Maximizing Youth Voice and Choice helps all staff and directors:

  1. Understand the role of adult facilitator in learner-centered programming
  2. Offer (real) age-appropriate choices to youth
  3. Get-and use-youth feedback

Coordinated Guidebook: Academic Content, After-School Style: A Notebook and Guide

Program Quality: Know It, Show It, Grow It

Training time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Personalized guidance for how to create more engaging, educational, and inclusive program environments.

Program Quality: Know It, Show It, Grow It helps directors:

  1. Identify ‘quality' in afterschool programming
  2. Specify priorities, set targets
  3. Build a culture of quality assessment and continuous improvement
Promoting Cultural Competence in Your Program

Training time: 1.5 - 3 hours

Strategies to increase awareness and promote cross-cultural communication and understanding amongst staff, students, and families. Grades K-12

Promoting Cultural Competence in Your Program helps all staff and directors:

  1. Build awareness of diverse attitudes, values, and ways of life
  2. Improve communication between staff, students, and families
  3. Create culturally competent programs and spaces

Coordinated Guidebook: Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff

Remake Homework Time

Training Time: 1.5 - 2 hours

Strategies and techniques for an engaging homework time that builds study skills, work habits, teamwork, creativity, independent learning-and gets schoolwork done! Grades K-12

Remake Homework Time helps all staff and directors:

  1. Design homework time to develop 21st Century skills
  2. Use effective helping strategies
  3. Create content-rich activities to fill gaps and transitions

Coordinated Guidebooks: Homework Zone Program Pack, Homework Time Afterschool Style, and/or Academic Content, Afterschool Style: A Notebook and Guide

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) for All

Training time: 3 - 4 hours

Practical techniques to get kids computing, engineering, and experimenting that don't require a math whiz to do. Grades 4-12

STEM for All helps all staff:

  1. Gain confidence in facilitating STEM learning
  2. Plan and support fun, hands-on science and math
  3. Find age-appropriate resources
Supporting Literacy in Out-of-School Time

Training Time: 1.5 - 3 hours

Read-alouds, book clubs, and journaling are just the beginning! Learn hands-on activities and strategies that support reading comprehension, vocabulary-building, and critical thinking. Grades K-12.

Supporting Literacy helps all staff and directors:

  1. Understand what literacy is and how it is developed
  2. Create an environment that supports literacy development
  3. Learn strategies for high-quality literacy supports
Supporting Positive Youth Development

Training Time: 1.5 - 3 hours

Strong relationships between staff and youth keep kids coming back. Gain strategies to build more enduring relationships that strengthen skills, redirect difficult behavior, and help create a dynamic environment that fits children and young people's developmental needs. Grades K-12.

Supporting Positive Youth Development helps all staff and directors:

  1. Identify characteristics of older and younger youth
  2. Understand how to support youth development and build relationships
  3. Learn strategies for positive behavior management
Working with Impoverished Youth

Training Time: 1.5 - 3 hours

Growing up is hard for all youth particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Gain useful resources to help impoverished youth succeed in school and strategies to connect them to their communities.

Working with Impoverished Youth helps all staff and directors:

  1. Demonstrate the unique needs of impoverished youth
  2. Design general programming approaches that better serve these unique needs
  3. Develop specific programming elements that promote greater civic engagement among impoverished youth

To learn more about the Center for Afterschool and Expanded Learning, call 888-977-5437 or email afterschool.edu@foundationsinc.org.