after-school
After-school program
Mission
- Get students excited about learning (life-long learners).
- Have the reasoning skills to manage in today’s society and begin to build a set of skills to use in multiple careers.
- Understand that problems are opportunities. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
- Have students better prepared for college or a career.
Our program: 10 sessions of 50 minutes/each
- Ice breaker: Marshmallow project (Begin our thoughts on the problem to be solved)
- Team development
- Planning
- Problem solving
- Reporting to the community
Planning details:
- Each class has student activities such as; Improv, drawings, simple designs, socratic questions
and games to enhance the learning.
- Students choose the community, world or education problem they want to solve
- Examples of potential problems
Team building:
teaching students to work in teams is one of the most important goals of a twenty-first-century teacher.
Learning the problem solving process that will support you through your career.
It can take some time to get your pitch right. You'll likely go through several
versions before finding one that is compelling, and that sounds natural in
conversation.
Research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie
Foundation and Stanford Research Center has concluded that 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft and people skills, and only 15% of job success comes from technical skills and knowledge (hard skills)…
April 8, 2016 By National Soft Skills
Association
Life-skills
- Attitude (positive attitude, focus, emotions, flexible, moral leadership )
- Social & emotional learning ( character development, empathy, responsibility )
- Team-work ( charter, respect, values, listening, trust, diversity, culture )
- Problem solving ( creative & critical thinking, decisions, planning )
- Personal skills (financial literacy, time management, communication )
