Lessons Learned from an After-School Program: Building Personal and Social Responsibility

Journal of Youth Development

Victoria Nicole Ivy¹ 

[1] University of Alabama

关键词: after-school program;    teaching personal and social responsibility;    youth from communities affected by poverty;    sport-based youth development programs;    physical activity;   

DOI  :  10.5195/jyd.2018.606

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

【 摘 要 】

Drawing from the physical activity and positive youth development literatures, this paper describes a novel after-school effort designed to enhance youths’ life skill development outcomes across school, family, and community settings. This program, which is derived from the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model, is a university-assisted effort serving 1st through 5th graders attending a low-income elementary school. As a part of this model’s approach, pre-service physical education teachers engage in a yearlong course sequence and practicum that enables them to deliver the program. University graduate students and faculty then provide ongoing support, facilitation, and training to the pre-service teachers at the same time they conduct field-based research on the effort. The preliminary data indicate that the program can successfully impact several teaching and life skill development outcomes. However, additional interventions appear to be needed to extend youths’ outcomes to settings outside of the program.

【 授权许可】

CC BY