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Skill Building.
For about five years now, one of the
teachers at Beatty elementary, he actually
comes teaches my after school program
staff how to create rockets and they are
water propelled rockets.
So, what they do
is they build these rockets and then we
have a launch day where all the schools
are shipped with buses and going bused to
one school site and they actually
compete against one another.
So, every
school is really jazzed about it.
They
have they make them out of Smartwater
bottles or two-liter bottles, but that's a
collaboration project that we've been
going on for five years now.
We've incorporated
dance, and we've incorporated percussion,
and so our percussion is a tribal drum
class that students participate in once
a week.
They learn an array of
instruments, so it's not just one
instrument.
They become masters of each
instrument in the drum circle and it
culminates with an actual performance in
front of an entire school that gets
pushed into our performing arts showcase.
And we're working on an endangered
species art contest.
The students get to
work on it throughout the month of March.
So, it allows them to perfect their art
and also master their skills.
Kids learn
to be kind to others, make sure that
everyone's included.
So our leadership
program, the children,
there's cards that they have like
socialization cards and questions for
the kids, and so, when they teach the
younger children how to talk to each
other, how to socialize with each other,
how to make sure everyone's included.
When it comes from a peer, it's a lot
more meaningful to them, because it's not
an adult telling them, it's a peer, and
older peer that they look up to.
If
someone's eating alone by their self, go
over there and cheer them up, and
just try not to make them feel alone
like they're left out every time.
Go sit
next to him, try to cheer him up, and my role
is try to make them feel good.
Try to make them
like they belong here.
One of the three rules, work, respect, and belong
Ever since I started the
program, I found photography
interesting.
I know that photography was
a work in progress, because not
everything is perfect in the first time.
As time goes on, photography has been
getting easier and easier, but there's
still so much to learn.
All the
activities we do are not only like
one-time things, it's repetitive and more
like, you do this one day, you learn it
and then you keep going so that you
build the skill and learn it more, and
get comfortable with it, so that if
you're presented with a project or
something that you need to use those
skills like oh yeah, I can do this I
learned this at the Youth Institute you
know.
I have to make a lot of movies in
school, so they're like oh who knows how
to edit, who knows how to use the camera,
who knows how to like make something on
Photoshop.
Like oh yeah, I know how to do
that, and they're like, what, like that's
cool, because you know they're my age
they're my grade, but they're not exposed
to the kind of things that I am.
Having
photography one of my best their like
favorite hobbies to do.
I would want to
get good at it, because it's something
that I like or something I am interested
in.
So, having the chance to come here and
always have the opportunity to have the
equipment there when I want it, is good.
Every time I go out on a photo shoot,
every time I go out to do a job, I am, I
learned something new every time.
Through
the implementation of the Skill Building
Standard, students participate in
activities that help them achieve
mastery of 21st century skills.
The
Quality Standards are a guide to help
you lead your program to its highest
quality.
Your work in Expanded Learning
is essential to helping people thrive.
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