National Partnership staff members are available to assist State Afterschool Coordinators and local sites in the development of exemplary programs. In addition, we offer high-quality, fee-for-service training designed for afterschool project directors, site coordinators, instructors, and afterschool staff from community organizations. Choose from a wide variety of 90-minute to 3-hour sessions, or let us customize a staff development experience of two or more days in length. Browse the topics available here, or contact us for more information.
Staff Professional Development Sessions: Programming
Ages and Stages: Understanding Students' Growth and Development
Knowledge about how students grow and develop is critical for designing and implementing high-quality afterschool programs attractive to students. This session addresses the milestones of physical, cognitive, and social development and explains how this understanding can better prepare afterschool staff to meet students' needs and design programs that attract and keep them involved.
What's Up with Afterschool Programming?
Afterschool programs are often judged by the activities they offer. Programming ranges from academic activities related to the school day to recreational and youth development activities just for the fun of it. This session is designed to help participants learn how to involve students, parents, and teachers in planning and implementing afterschool programs that will motivate students to participate in afterschool and keep them coming week after week.
Service Learning in Afterschool
This session addresses how to effectively use service learning to help students channel energy into meaningful, experience-based learning. Examples of best practices are shared, as are new ways to access funding to help support the use of volunteers in afterschool programs.
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