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S.T.E.P.S Program 2013. By Molly Meczywor and Kalie Lynn French. Summer Transition Educational Program for Success. Literacy Skills: Strategies for Success Curriculum STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Service Learning Career Exploration Social-Emotional Skills.
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S.T.E.P.S Program 2013 By Molly Meczywor and Kalie Lynn French
Literacy Skills: Strategies for Success Curriculum • STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math • Service Learning • Career Exploration • Social-Emotional Skills FOCUS: 5 – Strive to Be a 5
Attendance • Participation in Service Learning Project • Completion of all Academic Assignments • Complete work in Success Binder • Complete a Final Project 5 Criteria
Group of up to 40 students (36 total) • Three Weeks, 8:30-1:30 with lunch provided • Transportation provided • Week 1: SKILLS and OBSERVATION • Week 2: RESEARCH and PLAN • Week 3: ACT, REFLECT, DEMONSTRATE Structure:
Quote and Build-a-Learner Activity…..
OBSERVE: What is a community? Use graphing to represent results.
Students will analyze data collected throughout the week and create a bar graph to represent assigned prompt. Week 1 Assessment
PROJECTS: Recycling Park Clean Up Water Quality Homeless Animals/Animal Care Food Lunch Program Looking at solutions….Group Work
Students will write a Persuasive Letter to a person of importance relating to project • Students will create a Rhetorical poster relating to project Week 2 Assessments:
“I’ve gotten better with the groups and that’s thanks to the STEPS program. STEPS helped me in a lot of ways. Like I wasn’t really a good listener and that’s to the whole ‘active listening’ thing I’ve gotten better. We learned how to be polite. They taught us that it’s important to think about our future. I can be a better person and now I believe in myself.” Student Reflection
Final Project • Recommendations for Service Projects • Red Sox Game!!! (We’ve gotta have fun, too) • STEPS Celebration Fair Week 3 Assessment:
100% Graduation Rate Feedback from parents: “This program made my son more focused…..he looked forward to being here.” Observed students ability to communicate with others’ Student reflection: “Active Listening is going to help me in class.” Feedback from Community Partners: “The kids really showed growth this summer!” Final Successes:
-A method of teaching and a way of learning -Students use academic knowledge and skills to meet real community needs through service connected to their curriculum Service learning:
Needs and Problems: Observed, Brainstormed and Created a survey
-Survey -Speaker: Jen Munoz -And volunteered at the Berkshire food project Investigations:
School wellness policy – Do we have one and how was it created? • USDA guidelines • Nutritional values • Speaker: Corey Nicholas, Food Service Director for NAPS – Q & A Research Solutions:
Create a suggestion box for café • Buy a sanitizer dispenser • Create more surveys to find out what foods kids liked in summer Project ideas:
Worked in small groups to analyze data and make recommendations for Corey • Created a suggestion box and suggestion cards Plan/Implement the project:
REFLECTION: -This Power Point! -Four Square Reflection Paper -Group Discussions -Data Collection -Listening to other students’ comments -Hearing feedback from Corey about our project
Curriculum: -Math: We analyzed data and created bar graphs -We worked together in groups -Used Math to build a suggestion box - Science: researched healthy foods
What I think: I think the project that we did was very interesting. I thought it was interesting because we got to ask students and faculty what they thought of the school foodand even if they ate school lunch. Our group volunteered at the Berkshire Food Project to see what other organizations consider healthy and we put food in bags to give to people who need food. We created suggestion boxes for the cafeteria.
Thanks for watching!! S.T.E.P.S 2013 DRURY H.S.
CONTRIBUTORS: Kalie French, Shirley Gardener, Ryanon Kelly, Tonilee Therrien, Samantha Shade, Austin Dean, Ethan Therrien, & Issack Demarsico.