Training: Boot Camp Basics: Strengthening Skill Building in Your Afterschool Program through Project-Based Learning

In this workshop afterschool staff and leaders will develop their understanding, knowledge, and ability to provide skill-building opportunities in their afterschool programs. As described in the School-Age PQA tool, “The first step in assuring children learn and build skills is for the staff to have intentionally identified what is to be learned and how it is to be learned. This item has two purposes. First, it ensures that the staff has planned learning or skill-building objectives for the activities that day. Secondly, it assesses whether the staff has communicated that purpose to the children.”

In this workshop, participants will look at and share examples of skill-building activities and projects and begin to develop ideas for skill-building projects to implement in their program. This workshop involves an introduction to project-based learning, the active participatory approach and cooperative learning.