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Download The Training Guide for The Power of the Wind. It provides a wealth of training experiences and resources to engage youth development professionals (e.g. 4-H agents/educators) in building the capacity of volunteers in using The Power of the Wind Youth and Facilitator Guides.
Check out the new 4-H SET core competencies that are designed to be flexible and identify what knowledge and skills facilitators need to implement 4-H SET. There is the description of the competencies; a self-assessment tool and short cards that can be carried and keep the indicators close at hand.
The Everyone Ready® online professional development program on volunteerism is free and available to all Extension staff nationwide regardless of program area or title. Register now for Everyone Ready®.
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The 4-H youth development profession relies upon a 4-H professional research and knowledge base to guide efforts when working with and on behalf of young people. This base includes competencies essential to conducting 4-H youth development programs. Learn more about Professional Research and Knowledge Competencies.
The 4-H Standards for Professional Development act as a guide for developing, conducting, and assessing professional development experiences and resources for the 4-H workforce. They establish standards of excellence for 4-H professional development.
This checklist is used by National to review professional development resources. This is also a tool that may be useful for anyone who wishes to review the materials to use.
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Check back for updated staff resources to support your work implementing the 4-H Mission Mandates.
Click on the Mission Mandate to view resources.
The 4-H SET Checklist provides the components to support programs being SET-Ready. The checklist can be utilized to self assess the knowledge and skills staff will need to deliver 4-H SET programming.
4-H SET Competencies are the "demonstrated capacities" that are integral for facilitating high-quality learning environments with meaningful educational outcomes.
National 4-H Council, National 4-H Headquarters, and University of Arizona 4-H, invited all 4-H professionals, staff and volunteers to produce their own digital film for front-line educators and volunteers to better implement SET programs and you responded with excellent work. View the six 4-H SET Video Challenge Winners.
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The Training Guide is fully-scripted and prepares facilitators to understand and implement The Power of the Wind curriculum.
These two page facilitator guide sheets provide support for using the Into the Wind videos with youth with special notes about how they can be used with The Power of the Wind. Each of the four Into the Wind short videos focus on a different topic – kites; hang gliders; sailboats and pinwheels and science concepts about the wind. There is a Facilitator Guide sheet written for each topic.
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