Youth Development They won’t care what you know until they know that you care.

Youth Development When they see that you care about their world...

Youth Development They will want you to widen that world

Youth Development The Vision: Programs serve people (vs. people fill programs)

4-H Professional Research Knowledge Taxonomy (2004) Youth Development Youth Program Development Volunteerism Equity, Access, & Opportunity Partnerships Organizational Systems

Youth Development The Question: What must we know To help people grow ?

Youth Development Ages and Stages, Domains and Tasks Contexts and Theory Practice Process and Life Skills Impact

Youth development Ages and Stages Early Childhood (Cloverbuds) Middle Childhood (Elementrary) Early Adolescence (Middle School) Late Adolescence (High School)

scenarios The Question: What must we know To help people grow ?

scenarios Outdoor Cookery Despite safety instructions and close supervision, two 11 year-olds who were friends of a boy in Outdoor Cookery, tossed alcohol fuel on a charcoal fire during a practice event. Although no one was hurt and the tent did not burn down, shaken leaders are wondering what could/should have done and whether to cancel future activities.

Early Adolescence, Ages Characteristics: Enjoy active sports and recreation; Able to imagine grown up world but still unclear of needs and values Implications and Applications: Offer active, supervised learning; Relate choices to life skills through experiential learning

Early Adolescence, Ages Characteristic: Peer pressure mounts from same, then opposite gender Implications and Applications: Use positive peer pressure, group engagement, encouragement to guide, teach

Adult Development Adult Growth and Development Intimacy (closeness and credible authority) Generativity (structure and creativity) Integrity (leadership for youth development)

Youth development The Question: What must we know To help people grow ?

Youth development Domains and Tasks Physical Emotional Cognitive Social Moral Spiritual

Youth development Gardening in a Cup Plant seeds of different kinds of plants (grass, flowers, vegetables) in four different kids of soils (clay, sand, humus, loam), water regularly and expose to sun and warmth and observe results.

Youth development How can Gardening in a Cup promote development in each domain for each age group ?

Experiential learning Experience via new and active learning (“hands-on” work & play) Apply Share knowledge, skills, responses with others: to new situations; sensory observations, practice attitudes interpretations, feelings; ask & explore questions Generalize Process by linking withmeaning or integration real-world settingsby discussion, analysis experiences where reflection on recurring lessons apply themes or problems

Youth development Domains & Tasks Physical: small and gross motor abilities Emotional: expression and regulation of feelings toward leader, peers, self Cognitive: observation, classification, sequence

Youth development Domains & Tasks Social: cooperative learning, shared responsibility Moral: respecting others’ work, caring for living things Spiritual: finding meaning in relationships, tasks, success and failure

peoplemaking Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. —Lawana Blackwell, 1998, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter

peoplemaking If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. —Carl Jung