{"id":102,"date":"2018-11-13T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youththriving\/?p=102"},"modified":"2019-02-08T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:48:04","slug":"102-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/youththriving\/102-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Introducing the 4-H Thriving Model in 15 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Y’all need these in your teaching kit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Practitioner Tip Tuesday<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By Guest Blogger Kristen Moore, 4-H Companion Animal Programs, Portland Metro Region
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Brightly colored sticky notes. They are my go-to answer for most things in my life: grocery lists, house chores, gentle reminders to my husband. Sticky notes create a physical connection to the important things, be it large or small. And they were my go-to answer when I introduced the 4-H Thriving Model to a room full of teachers and parents.<\/p>\n

Portland 4-H is focusing on delivering a comprehensive school based 4-H program that engages students in every grade level with hands-on learning. For most of the teachers at the Portland 4-H Partner School Orientation, this was the first experience with 4-H and Oregon State University Extension Service. It was important to emphasize that 4-H is a youth development organization with expertise in creating safe and welcoming learning environments for youth to explore their sparks. In order to give a holistic view of the research driving 4-H programming, I introduced the 4-H Thriving Model.<\/p>\n

I had 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

15 minutes to instill a model that I devote countless hours of my time trying to understand and implement. Instead of showing the full model in Powerpoint, I broke the model down into segments and started with what connected everybody in the room. \u00a0As a room full of teachers, parents, and educators, our sparks fuel the spark in young people to help them achieve positive long term outcomes as they grow and thrive.<\/p>\n

Then the hands on activity. After I briefly described the thriving indicators, I asked each person to write down an anecdotal example of youth displaying actions that represent thriving indicators on my go-to tool, sticky notes. Sharing those notable actions of students, children, and kids in their community thriving on a large poster board created a physical connection to the 4-H Thriving Model.<\/p>\n

Finally, I ended at the beginning \u2013 the developmental context. That collage of brightly colored sticky notes demonstrated that youth thriving could be encouraged in a variety of places. 4-H is one developmental context but schools and neighborhoods also play critical roles in a young person\u2019s development. It also reinforced that increasing the access of 4-H programs to 4-H Partner Schools can ignite sparks and help youth develop the life skills necessary to thrive.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to repeating this activity at the end of year event, the 4-H Youth Summit, hopefully with more examples of thriving indicators with 4-H programs helping Portland students learn by doing.<\/p>\n

Thriving On,<\/p>\n

Kristen Moore, and 4-H Companion Pet Ambassador Beau<\/p>\n

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