The Need for Quality After School Programs in American Schools

Quality Requirements for Extracurricular Activities at American Schools Since the fall of 1997, the number of shooting incidents at American schools has increased rapidly. These crimes do not discriminate against social status or race. What is common to these events is that students aged 10 to 16 promise these events. In subsequent interviews, most students instigating these crimes expressed feelings "loose" or "abandoned" in student groups and communities.

Quality standards and tools Numerous studies have shown that high quality after school programs are related to many positive outcomes of young people, but continuous improvements in daily life and youth and their supporters How to use high quality tools in interactions Research on how to plan how to incorporate life into the quality assessment document of life is useful for organizations that develop after school domain tools and standards, especially institutions dealing with junior high school young people Will.

Impact on Quality In order to decide the good results of participating youth, it is time to mature to develop and implement high quality after school programs, especially to better understand the challenges for junior high school young people. After that, it is "young" to go home alone. This briefing will introduce some of the important issues and challenges in providing high quality programs to middle-aged young people and explain how to use course quality standards to improve these courses.

Develop and execute after school programs. Junior high school students are increasingly matured to participate in discussions as after school programs targeting junior high school students are demanding more suitable quality evaluation criteria for development. Junior high school students can choose high quality after school programs and demonstrate priorities and values ​​in deciding whether to continue working in secondary schools. Several initiatives began focusing on how junior high school students start and maintain high quality research participating in after school programs. It is important to have junior high school students participate in ongoing discussions on quality evaluation of after school programs.

Promote program improvement using quality standards. In addition to improving programs, quality assessment is an important accountability practice and helps to continue funds and licenses after the program. However, after school employees, administrators, researchers, funders, and evaluators are many, they are not used to quality assessment tools. In order to promote sustainability and good practice, you need to pay more attention to understand how to market these tools into after school programs.