Program Time
Afterschool offers unique opportunities for teaching and learning, afterschool style. Afterschool education is:
- Active, engaging, hands-on, challenging and fun
- Grounded in children's interests and supportive of social and individual development
- Deliberately planned with techniques, activities and projects to fit varied learning styles, skills and talents
The Center for Afterschool Education works with programs across the country and provides tools to build the educational quality of afterschool time. Your program may be focused on arts, sports, fitness, risk prevention, career exploration, job readiness or combinations of many goals.
If part of your mission is also to help children succeed in school, shape program content deliberately to provide that support.
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