Engaging teens with meaningful volunteer opportunities

Engaging Teens with Meaningful Volunteer

OpportunitiesPresented by: Amber Creger, Schaumburg TownShip District Library, IL Trixie Dantis, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, IL

Summer Kosuge, NorthBrook Public Library, IL

Olaus Magnus’s Carta Marina of 1539, this image from the 1572 edition. National Library of Sweden.

Problem

Project Based Learning: learning by doing

Volunteers gain skills and acquire knowledge by actively investigating, exploring and responding to a

challenge, question or task.

“For the things we have to learn Before we can do them, We Learn by Doing them.”-Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics

PBL develops 21st Century skills:● Learning Skills: Critical Thinking,

Creativity, Collaboration, Communication ● Literacy Skills: Info Literacy,

Media Literacy, Technology Literacy● Life Skills: Personal & Social

Responsibility, Life & Career, Citizenship, Leadership

Arlington Heights Memorial Library

Summer Volunteer Squad Timeline

Summer Volunteer

Squad Applicationhttps://goo.gl/Kgr

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Summer Volunteer Squad Timeline

SquadsAct Up

Biblio BuddiesBook Buds

<code>breakersKids Create

Pee Wee PollocksSprout SquadSTEM Squad

Traditionalists

Sprout Squad

Desired Outcome: Related Projects/Activities:

Apply STEAM-concepts

Companion planting, planning garden layout, build trellises, design garden signs, prep for Farmer’s Market

Aware of library resources, information literacy

Plant identification, prep for Farmer’s Market booth

Civic duty Produce donation, Farmer’s Market

Understanding of nutrition, where food comes from

Working in garden, prep forFarmer’s Market

Northbrook public library

Application

Volunteer

OpportunitiesSummer

Reading Desk Assistant

Program Assistan

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Department

Assistant

Groups

Volunteer GroupsChildren’s Book Discussion

CraftFiber ArtsGardening

Graphic Design and Marketing

Maker - Pop UpMedia

Merchandising*Sensory Boxes

TechTeen Book Discussion

*Theater - Pop UpYA Collections

The Process: Feb - Group/Group Leader proposals, Budgets

Summer programs set, Dept contactedMar - Group descriptions and meetings setApril - Mandatory Volunteer Meetings

Volunteer calendar is setMay - Applications due (early May)

Schedules are posted (late May)June - School ends

Volunteer Program beginsAug - Teen Volunteer Appreciation Party

Volunteer surveys

Volunteer Projects

EvaluationPBL - Voice and Choice Ongoing feedback during the programEmail check insEnd of the program surveys (Google Forms)

● Voluntary● Anonymous - if desired● Most questions are multiple choice● Short/Long answer question are optional

Scalability

Opportunity

Practical Tips

Questions?Amber Creger acreger@stdl.org Trixie Dantis pdantis@ahml.info Summer Kosuge skosuge@northbrook.info

Image Credits- Olaus Magnus’s Carta Marina of 1539, this image from the

1572 edition. National Library of Sweden.

- MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN. Cosmographia. Beschreibūg aller Lender dürch Sebastianum Munsterum ... . Getruckt zü Basel dürch Henrichum Petri. Anno M.D.XLiiij.

- Breakfast Club Gif. http://trobedinthedreamotorium.tumblr.com/post/42310343912 View 6/17/2016.

- Aristotle, Encyclopedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/biography/Aristotle. View 6/19/2016.

- John De Rosier. Times union, editorial cartoon, 4/20/2012. - Ninja Nesting Dolls. https://www.totally-funky.co.uk. View

6/19/2016.- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Gif.

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