29 Apr
2014
29 Apr
'14
8:57 p.m.
That's a great idea, and I think a really necessary feature of any youth program. I struggle with negotiating how much to lead/guide and how much to follow/facilitate on youth projects. Do you have input about that from your own experience? In this case, we've had a youth specifically request some way of gauging his progress so that he can take it to another bike shop, sort of like a resume.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:37 PM, DancesWithCars danceswithcars@gmail.comwrote:
Maybe have kids create their own goals and yardsticks?
dude/[ette].... BNF forgotten. Lied to re: Del msgs. MHA* On Apr 29, 2014 5:35 PM, "Lauren Warbeck" <lauren.warbeck@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Folks! > > When not immersed in planning an Ohio-themed Bike! Bike! fundraiser dance > party (!!!), I'm actually doing other for real work. Including the > exploration of formats, documentation, and reporting for our youth > volunteering and Earn-a-Bike programs. > > Here in British Columbia, high school students are required to complete > something like 30 hours of work experience (ie free labour) to graduate, > and we get a lot of youth completing this requirement at our shops. We > also run pretty informal Earn-a-Bike programs for youth who are in > unconventional education settings, accessing social services, in > alternative programs, or can't access our in-school programming for any > variety of reasons. Lots of these kids are really focused on getting a > job, but we can rarely accommodate that. > > I'm in the process of creating a checklist/worksheet of mechanical and > interpersonal skills acquired by youth as they volunteer in our spaces. > The idea is that it would include gradients of skill, becoming increasingly > more complex as time goes on. It would be used to guide their time in the > shop, and also document what they've learned. It would be the youth's > responsibility to fill the checklist out over time and have staff sign off > on it, and when it's completed, we would write them a letter of > recommendation to be used in applying for jobs, school, whateva. > > So....do yall have anything like this in place? Or any other relevant > Earn-a-Bike or alternative youth programming materials I can creep and reap? > > SEND THEM TO ME! > > Thanks buddiez! > > Lauren @ OCB > > ____________________________________ > > The ThinkTank mailing List > <a href=" > http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org/danceswithcars%40gmail.com?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1">Unsubscribe > from this list</a> > > > ____________________________________ The ThinkTank mailing List <a href=" http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org/lauren.warbeck%40gmail.com?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1">Unsubscribe from this list</a>