Integrating Integrating Enrichment with CA Enrichment with CA Content StandardsContent Standards

Integrating Integrating Enrichment with CA Enrichment with CA Content StandardsContent Standards

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Training Agenda Ice Breaker: Logic Madness Training Goals & Overview Standards At A Glance Balance Programming Games That Build Learning Skills Academic Support: Homework Asst.

Q & A

Training GoalsLearn to link enrichment

activities to academic standards

Practice integrating activities to themes to create

balanced programming

Explore ways to integrate academics with enrichment

OverviewThe CA curriculum frameworks and the CA academics content standards describe the core curriculum for each subject or content area for K – 12th grades and provide direction for effectively transmitting the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to students. Subject areas for CA students include:

Foreign Language Physical Education

Health Reading/Language Arts

History/Social Science Science

Mathematics Visual & Performing Arts

OverviewMany school-age after school programs include an academic enrichment component as part of their daily program. While these programs do not extend the regular school day, they do enhance the school day by providing activities and opportunities for intentional (disguised) learning. Students learn the concepts and skills of the content standards through fun and interactive activities.

Knowledge of the content in the curriculum frameworks and the academic content standards being used by your school/school district assists staff in planning appropriately to provide related academic opportunities and support.

Such opportunities help the students to be more successful!

Standards-At-A-Glance

• Language Arts Standards• Mathematics Standards

Creating A Balance In Programming

It is important to strike a balance with the types of activities made available to students. The after school program setting allows an opportunity for students to explore a variety of interests including building on information, skills and concepts introduced during the school day and to explore new activities that are independent of the regular school day.

Identify;

1) Curriculum areas

2) Long & short term activities that might appropriate for after school

Theme Web ActivityBreak into small groups

Materials: a piece of flip chart paper and markers

one Theme Web diagram per group

resource books for each group

Activity: Draw the Theme Web on your flip chart paper

Choose a “theme” and write it above the Theme Web

Review resource books

Write activity names within the web

Review & discuss with the large group

Activities in a Activities in a Balanced ProgramBalanced Program

Activities in a Activities in a Balanced ProgramBalanced Program

Cognitive ActivitiesThese activities stimulate children’s

thinking and intellectual abilities.

• Games & activities that reinforce academic skills & concepts

• Scientific experiments & projects• Projects that require critical-

thinking & decision-making skills

Language Development Activities

These activities reinforce children’s skills in using words effectively in

their primary or secondary language.

• Storytelling• Activities that require reading or giving

directions• Word-based games, such as Scrabble or

Password

Social-Emotional Activities

These activities provide opportunities for children to interact

& learn more about each other & themselves.

• Games & activities that require teamwork & cooperation & build positive relationships

• Activities that focus in a positive way on similarities & differences among people & cultural values

• Activities that increase children’s self-awareness & self-esteem

Ethical ActivitiesThese activities help children critically examine their values & those of other

people & groups.

• Role-playing of social or interpersonal problems that develop among the children

• Discussions to clarify or examine conflicting values or ethical beliefs among the children or between groups

Physical ActivitiesTheses activities provide children with

opportunities to learn & strengthen small-and-large motor skills & coordination.

• Games or activities that encourage running, throwing, & other active play

• Projects that require fine-motor skills, such as cutting or lacing

• Activities that build strength & endurance, such as aerobics or physical fitness

Creative ActivitiesThese activities encourage children to

express themselves in non-programmed, imaginative ways by drawing inspiration from within themselves rather than from

external models or directions. • Art media, such as drawing, painting, or sculpting• Music• Drama• Puppetry• Creative writing• Dance• Integration of arts through a play, performance, or backyard

circus

Planning Sheet

• Complete the Planning Sheet for one of the activities on your Theme Web

• Share with the large group

Games that Build Learning Skills

• Games Grid• Music• Making Masks• Folk Dancing• Rhapsody in Color

Academic Support

• KidzLit• KidzMath

Q and A