Schools should allow students to participate in club-sponsored events during school hours. While I do not believe that clubs should primarily use class-time to meet, not all club-sponsored events can be completed after school or over the weekend. Therefore students should participate in events during the school day because the events benefit not only the students, but the communities as well. However, parents and teachers may argue that students would miss out on learning in the classroom.
Club-sponsored events add memorable experiences to students’ academic careers. The club events break up the monotony of classroom learning by providing students with a new environment for a day, or even just a few periods. Students work hard during the school day, and deserve the occasional break to refocus their minds. While students may enjoy finding limits and derivatives in first period AP Calculus, they also enjoy the change in pace that the set-up for the yearly feeder-school math fair provides.
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When clubs host events during the school day, more students have the opportunity to serve others. For example, the Key Club Special Olympics would be impossible to coordinate if it were not done during the school day. Because sports teams, theatre, band, and choir all meet after school, fewer students would be able to participate in the Special Olympics. Similarly, if the National Honor Society sponsored their blood-drive on the weekend, students would have gone out of their way to give blood. Both the Special Olympics and the blood drive benefit the community at large. As a result, the students from Mercy Special Learning Center students spent the day having fun with Notre Dame students, and the blood drive collected over fifty pints of blood to treat sick and injured people in local
Football is possibly too dangerous of a game for young boys and girls to be playing. I am not talking about all forms of football, but more specifically tackle football. Yes, football may possibly be one of America’s loved sport because of the brutality that it consists of; although I believe that there should be an age where kids should start playing such a horrific game. At the age of ten young boys, and girls, should be worrying about who they are going to be playing with outside at recess. Kids should not have to be worried about their friends having to miss school because of a concussion, or worse him or herself.
As much as this class has grown together, every one of us has also grown as a unique individual. We have found our talents and interests. These interests have drawn us to different activities and in turn helped shape our lives. Some of us have excelled academically while others have helped improve Summer High School by participating in activities such as Link Crew or ASB. Some of us acted in plays while others shared their musical talents by singing in the choir or performing with our outstanding band. Many of us have preferred to be involved in community service with a group like KEY Club. In addition to these school activities, many of us have invested time in jobs and other community activities.
Since Graceland University and Lamoni depend on each other, students have numerous opportunities for positive community building. In fact, Dr. Jason Smith recruited several of his mathematics students to help with Mathemagical Mystery Tour; during the winter of 2016, we ventured to neighboring counties and brought fun mathematics activities to the middle schools. By working directly with the classes, the college students hoped to break the potential monotony of daily lessons and to encourage the middle schoolers to find the joy in math. Another instance involves the Lamoni
For my graduation project, I volunteered in hosting a blood drive January 6th, 2016 from one o’clock to seven o’clock. Blood drives help save lives and give back to the community. During this project, I learned leadership skills, group work skills, and more information about blood drives. I volunteered by setting up a place and time for the drive, recruiting donors, and helping the donors register on the day of the drive. One thing I would like the audience to remember about my project is the importance of a blood drive and how you can help others and your community by taking out a small period of time in your day. I will use the things I learned when hosting a blood drive for the future when I donate again, and if i pursue my goal of becoming a doctor.
Serving for the community and the school without compensation or recognition is a defining characteristic of the National Honor Society. I believe that I provide plenteous hours of service to my school and community. In my school, I am a member of Interact Club- a club that encourages volunteer work regarding the school and the community. I have participated in many Interact activities such as Make a Difference Day- cleaning trash at the Wildlife Refuge, Martin Luther King Day at Stockton University- helping organizations such as Circle K, and Project Green- cleaning trash and planting at the Atlantic City beach. In addition to these activities, I have volunteered at Seashore Gardens over the summer before my junior year. There, I was able to engage and interact with the elderly by coloring with them, distributing their lunches, and getting to know them. During my first day volunteering there, I had made a friend instantly as we bonded over gossiping and each other’s daytime activities. It was definitely an experience I will never forget. In addition, I volunteered my time by bagging groceries at ShopRite and washing cars to help fundraise for the Absegami girls soccer team as well as making Valentine's Day cards for the elderly, decorating classroom doors for Christmas, and helping my class with a cookie fundraiser. Helping the environment, aiding the elderly, bagging groceries, helping my class, and being
Topic: The American Red Cross Club at State University is group that organizes blood drives, and thinks of creative ways to motivate people do donate blood.
Im thoroughly glad I chose Penn State to be my college, for many reasons of course, but one of them being the endless opportunities. Ranging from athletic events, the lively town, and various music related events, something is almost always going on. I was trying to decide what i’d like to do this assignment for, and something that crossed my mind was a way to help the community and give back since i’ve been given so much. So in return I did some googling and spoke with friends, and soon was informed that a blood drive was happening on a day that was convenient for me. I could not think of a better way to easily help others and feel great about myself at the same time. In high school, there was always a blood drive every 6 months to help the American Red Cross, normally I would try to donate as much as possible as frequently as possible. As the president of
We want students to be able to make the change they want to see. In order to do this we design in-school service events that all students, not just club members, can participate in. As a leader, I created awareness events like “Taco-ing About Diabetes”, which was an event where student-volunteers helped faculty and students make diabetes-friendly tacos while teaching about what diabetes is. Although this event wasn’t “normal” community service, it made an impact on our school community, and helped to educate people about a disease that many people face. I also designed an event called “Biking with Brains”, which encouraged students to bike safely to school.
In sixth grade, one of my future teachers, Mrs. Bhaskar, created a “club” in which members would participate in math competitions, like AMC 8 and Math Olympiads. When I went to her classroom to register, she told me that I was the first person to inquire about the club. Unfortunately, she said she needed more members in the club, or she would have to cancel the club. Therefore, I asked several of my friends to join the club, and soon there were more than ten members participating in math com...
For hundreds of years it has been recognized that not all learning takes place in the classroom. Students mental and social development also occurs outside the classroom in athletics, music, and clubs. No matter what club the student is involved in, he/she fosters organizational, interpersonal, communication, planning, critical thinking, financing, and evaluation skills. A club gives students the opportunity to combine components of their mental and social development into personal action. These students have opportunities to test their skills and talents in different situations. Students will always work together to set goals, develop action plans for achieving those goals and implement those plans. Doing so, students could develop and maintain working relationships and friendships. The soul of a club is the students, but it also consists of many things that happen behind the scenes.
events” (Irish). The loss of extracurricular activities is just one of the many things that schools
Two-thirds of children who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to attain at least a bachelor’s degree, whereas only half of children that do not participate do (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995). Childhood is a very important time in our lives, a time when we develop many vital skills that follow us into adulthood. Some people laugh or scoff at us parents that keep our children to busy schedules. Those same people would also argue that our children should be allowed to have a childhood, to not be so tightly scheduled in their daily lives. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I would suggest doing a little research. Participating in after-school activities has shown to benefit children in many ways. Children should
Throughout out this semester, I’ve had the opportunity to gain a better understanding when it comes to teaching Mathematics in the classroom. During the course of this semester, EDEL 440 has showed my classmates and myself the appropriate ways mathematics can be taught in an elementary classroom and how the students in the classroom may retrieve the information. During my years of school, mathematics has been my favorite subject. Over the years, math has challenged me on so many different levels. Having the opportunity to see the appropriate ways math should be taught in an Elementary classroom has giving me a
Imagine walking across the stage in just a few years from now. Having thousands of eyes pointed at you as you take that emotional walk to finally receive your high school diploma. After a few years when you have graduated high school and started life, you're going to look back and think, what have I accomplished so far? Extracurricular activities can be very beneficial for students now, and those in the future as well. They can allow you to feel like you have accomplished something while in school. Extracurricular activities are important because they can benefit a student through personal, educational, and even social means. It is a great idea to get more students involved in extracurricular activities and parents should begin to give their kids a little push to get them more involved.