2. Pre-event Preparation
There are multiple responsibilities before an event takes
place and these responsibilities should be dispersed among the Team members.
- Multiple methods of communication should be used to
promote the event
- Introduce the academic aspect of TEAM
- Choose the event and topics that attract interest –
get feedback - have a workshop based on the suggestions
- Students and teachers develop event rules
3. Day of event
On the day of the event
responsibilities and trip rules should be dispersed. Transportation,
chaperones, teacher/parent/student roles should be reviewed before the event.
Sometimes community members accompany TEAM members as guardians to students who
cannot find family members to attend meetings with them.
4. Post-event
Teachers, parents, students, and
community members need to know their responsibilities for the event. These
responsibilities will vary for each event.
5. Projected Activities
A. TEAM
Club
Often underserved students do not
join school clubs and this lack of involvement on a social level further
alienates them from the mainstream student population. Giving TEAM students the
opportunity to join a club where they will not feel intimidated and will be
able to have fun and learn how they can give back to society is a
non-threatening way to enhance leadership skills.
Club Ideas:
· Student
Newcomer Registry
1)
Photography – photo bulletin board of students
2)
TEAM students become escorts or partners to new students
3)
Write literature about TEAM
4)
Students create profile sheets about themselves
5)
Review new student course schedules
6)
TEAM Students organize community outings for new students
7)
Encourage new students to get involved in the community
· Voicing
Room / ideas
8)
Voicing room can be located in classroom
9)
“Voice Box” will be available for depositing the issues to be
discussed
10)
Monthly meetings
11)
Bulletin board for TEAM student club
12)
Encourage TEAM students to Speak Out!
· Community
Service Possibilities / ideas
13)
Students create multi cultural materials for TEAM (flyers,
etc.)
14)
Students and parents can organize cultural events
15)
TEAM students can read to younger children in different
settings/locations
- Election
of officers – practice in leadership
- Club
advisors – parents and teachers
C. Projected TEAM ideas
- Establish
a cohort of parents that will encourage consistent attendance and
participation in the TEAM program (parent delegates for TEAM)
- Establish
a cohort of students that will encourage consistent attendance and
participation in the TEAM program (student delegates for TEAM)
- Increase
parent and student involvement and ownership in TEAM
- Disperse
teacher responsibilities
- Gradually
increase parent involvement
- Gradually
increase student involvement
VIP Parents
- VIP
parent letters/correspondence –
choose 10 to 20 families as the supporting cohort of TEAM (focus on and nurture that cohort)
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