How To Your After School Program

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How To Your After School
Program
F L I P
F L I P
F L I P

• Presented by
• Ashley Love, M.P.A.

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What is F L I P???
INTERACTIVE
FUN
PRODUCTIVE
LEARNING
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Why is F L I P Important?

• Fun
• Keeps kids happy
• Gains more interest from kids
• Learning
• Kids learn something from you
• Kids are given learning options
• Interactive
• Keeps kids awake
• Kids feel important
• Productive
• Kids stay alert and active
• Kids leave with take-aways

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Essentials for ASP Daily Agendas

• SNACK!
• Ice Breaker Activities
• Homework Time
• Group/Team Work Activities
• Reflection Activities
• ROUTINEROUTINEROUTINEROUTINE

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FUN Icebreakers Back-Up Activities

• Keep kids laughing
• Include Icebreakers that have NOTHING to do with
  your activities...just for laughs
• Always have back-up activities ready for BORING
  crowds
• Consider your presentation environment

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FUN Icebreakers Back-Up Activities

• Hula Hoop Dance
• Two Lies A Truth
• Why Were You Late?
• Following Instructions
• Fun with Lego's
• Who Am I?
• 7.Character Tests
• 8.Whats the Sentence
• 9.Animal Sounds

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Learning Teaching with Charisma

• Visual Learners
• Some students rely upon a
• visual learning style "Show me
• and I'll understand."
• Visual learners benefit from
• diagrams, charts, pictures, films,
• and written directions.
• These students will value to-do
• lists, assignment logs, and
• written notes.

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Learning Teaching with Charisma

• Auditory Learners
• Auditory learners tend to
• benefit most from traditional
• teaching techniques.
• Many teachers use a lecture-style
• forum, presenting information by
• talking to their students.
• Regulating voice tone, inflection, and
• body language will help all students
• maintain interest and attention.
• Auditory learners succeed when
• directions are read aloud, speeches
• are required, or information is
• presented and requested verbally.

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Learning Teaching with Charisma

• Kinesthetic Learners
• Most of the school population excels
• Through kinesthetic means touching,
• feeling, experiencing the material at
• hand.
• Children enter kindergarten as
• kinesthetic and tactual learners,
• moving and touching everything as
• they learn.
• By second or third grade, some
• students have become visual learners.
• During the late elementary years some
• students, primarily females, become
• auditory learners.
• Yet, many adults, especially males, maintain

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Learning Teaching with Charisma

• Kinesthetic Learners
• They acquire information fastest
• when participating in a science lab,
• drama presentation, skit, field trip,
• dance, or other active activity.
• Because of the high numbers of
• kinesthetic learners, education is
• shifting toward a more hands-on
• approach manipulative and other
• "props" are incorporated into almost
• every school subject, from physical
• education to language arts.
• Hands-on teaching techniques are
• gaining recognition because they
• address the challenging needs of
• kinesthetic learners, as well as the
• diverse needs of auditory and visual

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Learning Teaching with Charisma

• PREFERENCE SURVEY ACTIVITY
• You will be given 4 minutes to complete
• this survey to determine your learning
• style based on the VAK!

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Learning Teaching with CharismaTypical
Behaviors of...

• Auditory 9th- College Level
• I hear what youre saying
• Talk to themselves
• Easily distracted by noise
• Talkative
• Use tape recorders for notes
• Visual 4th-8th
• I get the picture
• Doodle during meetings
• Planners and Organizers
• Forget instructions unless written down
• Handouts/Notes/Charts/Colors

• Kinesthetic K - 3rd
• I dont follow
• Im lost
• Touch people to get their attention
• Memorize by walking and seeing
• Use hands when talking
• Messy Handwriting
• Daydreamers

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Interactive Just Say NO to Naptime!

• REMEMBER your verbal and nonverbal communication!
• Use (Fun) and Interactive Technology!
• Consider Social and Ethical issues
• Activity Example Rap Wars
• Topic to be Learned College Awareness
• Directions Your group will be given 10 minutes
  to
• create a rap/chant that coincides with todays
• theme (the IMPORTANCE of GOING to
• COLLEGE!) in a tune of a popular song (any
• genre). All groups will be given 1 minute to
  perform
• their rap/chant. The group with the best
  rap/chant will receive a prize!!!

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Productive Keep Em Busy!

• Keep time, in-between-time SHORT
• Dont forget those BACK-UP activities BE
  PREPARED
• Use PRODUCTIVE transition activities
• Follow your AGENDA and remain ORGANIZED
• Also
• Place stress toys on tables
• Place snack food and/or candy on tables
• Play music during group work activities

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Sample Closing Questions for Candy

• What is my Name?
• What does FLIP stand for?
• What are the VAK Learning Techniques?
• Name at least two Essentials of ASP Daily
  Agendas.

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ResourcesResourcesResources

• FLIP your After School Program by
• Creating Agendas and Activity Descriptions
• Utilizing Activity Resources Online
• Creating Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Themes
• Promoting Service Projects
• Inviting Outside Speakers to Educate (according
  to theme!)
• Use Everyday/Popular Games to Teach Themes
• Allow Kids to Teach Each Other
• Promote Group Projects and Team Work
• Support Diversity and Multicultural Exposure
• Ask Kids Opinions about Activity Choices

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How Can You Enhance Your ASP Daily Agenda???

• What are you trying to teach?
• Choose a game or activity you KNOW the kids
  already like!
• Add 1 and 2 together and you get FLIP!
• Example 1
• 1. Snack Time- Healthy Habits
• 2. Allow youth to engage in a Cooking Contest
• Example 2
• Activity Time or Homework Time- Math Skills
• Create Math Jeopardy Game

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ResourcesResourcesResources

• VAK Learning Techniques
• -http//school.familyeducation.com/intelligence/
  teaching-methods/38519.html
• -http//www.finntrack.com/whiteboard/lsupport/st
  yles.html
• -https//olt.qut.edu.au/it/ITB116/gen/static/VAK
  /Index.htm
• Activity Resources
• http//www.theteacherscorner.net
• http//olc.spsd.sk.ca/teachers/teacherresources.ht
  ml
• http//www.pbs.org/teachers/
• http//www.sitesforteachers.com/
• http//www.atozteacherstuff.com/
• http//www.afterschool.gov/
• http//www.afterschoolcatalog.com/about.asp