Region 5 Professional Development                 Day for ASOST Programs 

 

Do you work with school age children in before school, after school or during the summer? If so, please join your Out-of-School Time colleagues and take part in an exciting and hands-on Professional Development Day.  

Choose one of six .5 CEU courses designed to support you and your program for success.

• Through My Window- A free engineering curriculum that integrates STEM and literacy through imaginative story.  Through My Window includes a YA STEM mystery novel, multimedia online learning modules, and offline enrichment activities. No engineering background needed. Designed for informal settings, this interactive training will include hands-on activities, discussions, videos, and more. Please bring your own laptop--we'll try out the learning modules and explore educator resources during the workshop!

• Leadership in Afterschool and the Legal Ins and Outs for Success: In this course, afterschool program leadership will learn practical methods for successful leadership of the afterschool team, as well as the legal “do’s and don’ts” for managing a team, beginning with hiring, supervising, guiding, and when necessary, firing. We will explore practices for dealing with difficult employees, facing allegations both by and against employees, and reviewing communication strategies that work. What you say, and don’t say, matters. This course will help you know when and how to say it. Activities, discussion groups, and role plays will help clarify the take-aways for this session. (Note:  This training is designed specifically for Directors and Site Coordinators and will award 5 EEC Training hours; not CEU's) 

• Afterschool Can Indeed Partner With Your Kids’ School – How to Make It Work: Strong partnerships and effective, reciprocal communication between schools and Afterschool and Out-of-School Time (ASOST) programs are essential to increasing quality of ASOST programs and improving outcomes for students. This training is designed to educate those in ASOST program-planning positions on the benefits of establishing effective communication systems and working in partnership with schools to the ASOST program, the children they serve, schools, and families. Participants will reflect on their current practices and examine approaches that will help them more meaningfully and intentionally engage with schools, improve communications, and form mutually beneficial partnerships. By the end of the training, participants will have tailored a specific action plan that will provide a framework for engaging in this work. They will be able to use knowledge gained and tools acquired to refine and implement their action plan in their programs.

• Supporting English Language Learners in Out of School Time Program: This training is designed to support the OST professional in reaching out to and serving the diversity of students and families in their program. Focusing on the academic, social, and emotional needs of bilingual and English Language Learning students, participants will explore the challenges and the many rewards of working with ELLs and their families in afterschool and out-of-school time settings. Participants will walk away with practical tips, tools and hands on resources to support ELLs and to take back to their staff and programs to implement in the OST setting.