- Author: Quang T. Tong
It’s come down that Sharon is retiring. Sharon represents both the academic and program side of things here in the state office. Many of the things she has done during her term as State Director has been to reconcile the two sides. I think one of the reasons why she asked me to come on at the state office is to support the programming side of 4-H. While the academics are awash with their own politics, program reps and program support staff are left with vague priorities and little program support.
Sharon asked me to focus on 4hOnline learn as much as I could to support program staff. It’s been 4 months of crash personal training and experimentation but I think I understand the system enough to help counties untangle any major issues that they encounter. Enrollapolluze went well, I do think that if given more time the support pieces we could have produced would have been more substantial. Already the handbook is in need of major revision with the many changes that are taking place. It’s on my to do list, right after golden clovers, National Conf, Record Book judging, and state field day.
I haven’t been able to start concentrating on support pieces for programming but I wanted to try and start that here with some thoughts. There is a series of support pieces I want to produce or get produced to maybe help staff members. Some of these ideas include;
Primary Leadership Development
- Helping Hands
- What Can I Do to Help
- What Needs to be Done
- My 4-H Club
- My 4-H Project
- Writing component
- Math Component
- Partnerships with older members
- Working together
- Working with parents
Beginning 4-H Project
- 4-H Culture
All Star Training
- Recruiting
- Retention
- Development
Hi 4-H Training
See All Star Training
Adult trainings
- Teen Leaders
- Junior Leader
- Self assessments
- Projects
- Skills
- Goals
There are some ideas that I want to put together to support the state program. They are vague semi-morphous thoughts that occur to me.
Some ideas for current programming;
Extending the State Leadership program – developing other projects or areas where teens can get involved with
National Conf. Delegation – developing a more engaged program for delegates
If anyone who is interested in working with me on any of these topics please let me know