Educational Psychology—Limitations and Possibilities

TEAM 697
Projected Activities
TEAM Club. Often underserved students do not join school clubs and this lack of involvement
on a social level further alienates them from the mainstream student population. Giving
TEAM students the opportunity to join a club where they will not feel intimidated and will be
able to have fun and learn how they can give back to society is a nonthreatening way to enhance
leadership skills.
Club Ideas:
� Student Newcomer Registry
1. Photography—photo bulletin board of students
2. TEAM students become escorts or partners to new students
3. Write literature about TEAM
4. Students create profile sheets about themselves
5. Review new student course schedules
6. TEAM Students organize community outings for new students
7. Encourage new students to get involved in the community
� Voicing Room/Ideas
1. Voicing room can be located in classroom
2. “Voice Box” will be available for depositing the issues to be discussed
3. Monthly meetings
4. Bulletin board for TEAM student club
5. Encourage TEAM students to Speak Out!
� Community Service Possibilities/Ideas
1. Students create multicultural materials for TEAM (flyers, etc.)
2. Students and parents can organize cultural events
3. TEAM students can read to younger children in different settings/locations
� Election of officers—practice in leadership
� Club advisors—parents and teachers
Projected TEAM Ideas
� Establish a cohort of parents that will encourage consistent attendance and participation in the TEAM
program (parent delegates for TEAM).
� Establish a cohort of students that will encourage consistent attendance and participation in the TEAM
program (student delegates for TEAM).
� Increase parent and student involvement and ownership in TEAM.
� Disperse teacher responsibilities.
� Gradually increase parent involvement.
� Gradually increase student involvement.
VIP Parents.
� VIP parent letters/correspondence—choose ten to twenty families as the supporting cohort of TEAM
(focus on and nurture that cohort)