A quality program employs staff and volunteers who value each youth, understand youths’ developmental needs, and develop working relationships with coworkers, youth, families and caregivers and other partners. A quality program supports the professional growth of staff and volunteers by providing ongoing professional development that bolsters the knowledge and skill necessary for implementing best practice programming.
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Making the Most of Staff Meetings
There may not always be time for a full day of professional development. Click 2 Science’s meeting resources will help you make the most of your staff meetings by incorporating staff training into each meeting.
Curriculum
Expanding Horizons: Professional Development – Asia Society
Afterschool Academies Guidebook for Action – Foundations, Inc.
Making Parents/Families Feel Welcome and Valued – BOSTnet
Engaging Families in Out-of-School Time Programs Toolkit – BOSTnet
Identifying Staffing Needs and Recruiting Qualified After-School Staff – Policy Studies Associates, Inc.
Mandated Reporters: Critical Links in Protecting Children in Georgia (free online course)
Self-assessment for Administrators of Child Care Programs – The North Carolina Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development
The Impact of Peer Networking on Out-of-School Time Staff – Out-of-School Time Resource Center
Using Professional Development to Enhance Staff Retention – Afterschool Matters
GUIDE’s Team Building Activities and Icebreakers
Know Thyself: Developing Your Inner Leader – National Afterschool Association
Build a Solid Team – National Afterschool Association
Get Your Staff Motivated – National Afterschool Association
Research & Best Practices
Planning Considerations for Afterschool Professional Development – Afterschool Matters
Empowering Youth Work Supervisors with Action Research Strategies – Afterschool Matters
Afterschool Professional Development: Resources, Outcomes, and Considerations – New York Statewide Afterschool Network
Human Resources: Staffing Out-of-School Time Programs in the 21st Century – Afterschool Matters
Using Professional Development to Increase Staff Retention – Afterschool Matters
Assessing Bullying: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners – Child Trends
Afterschool Professional Development: Resources, Outcomes, and Considerations – New York Statewide Afterschool Network
How Program Administrators Can Support Out-of-School Time Staff – Child Trends
A Network Wide Approach to Professional Development: Professional Development in Out-of-School Time – Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal
Promising Practices in Out-of-School Time Professional Development – University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Professional Development
Preparing Yourself to Facilitate STEM (Learning Module) – Click2Science
Meeting Resources – Click2Science