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Humor:
Teacher: George, go to the map and find North America.
George: Here it is!
Teacher: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America?
Class: George!
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School Activities
Term:
The term "school activities" applies to a wide range of skill-based
games, strategies and interactive activities that support students'
educational development.
Goal:
The goal of all activities is to enhance students' understanding, skill or effectiveness in a specific area by engaging multiple styles of learning. School activities also serve to infuse fun into learning as well as bolster student confidence and the ability to think critically.
Difference:
Some teachers and learners don't know what school activities, their objectives and plans are and what their kinds are. The school activities include 2 kinds of activities, co-curriculum and extracurriculum activities. These two terms are quite similar in nature, but different in strategy and practice.
Co-curricular refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum.
Generally speaking, co-curricular activities are an extension of the formal learning experiences in a course or academic program, while extracurricular activities may be offered or coordinated by a school, but may not be explicitly connected to academic learning. This distinction is extremely fuzzy in practice, however, and the terms are often used interchangeably. Athletics, for example, are typically considered to be extracurricular activities, while a science fair would more likely be considered a co-curricular activity, given that students are learning science, participation may be required by the school, students may be graded on their entries, or a science teacher may coordinate the fair. Still, in some schools certain athletics activities might be considered “co-curricular,” while in other schools a science fair may be labeled “extracurricular.”
They refer to those activities which complement learning experience of the students in the schools. They are done inside the classroom. These activities are connected with academic and are organized or designed to help the students have a better understanding of his course. They are integral to the classroom and result in a course grade and credit.
Examples:
Kinds of these activities:
A-Co-curriculum activities and syllabus:
They are are syllabus -planned Activities. They are practiced inside the classroom. They refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum.
Inside classroom, learners participate in practicing a lot of activities that belong to the course content. The aim is that learners must be mentally, physically, environmentally and emotionally involved. Learners listen, observe, speak, read, point, walk, act, answer, draw, paint, trace, mime, sing, play music, imitate, write, play roles, report, use technology, use electronic programs, dialogue with themselves ( self-exploration), dialogue with others, interact with the teacher, the set-book, the teaching aid, the realia, the environment, the debate or the interview(Interactivity). The learner understands, applies, analyses, synthesizes, evaluates, creates and innovates.
B- "CCA" related to the syllabus:
C-Crafts Activities:
1-Learners like to practice their skills at school. Some share in doing agricultural works. They do gardening. They plant flowers and roses.They beautify their school.
2-Some learners share in manual crafts. They make things like agricultural products. They cook foods, make cheese and others.
3-Some learners do sculpture works like statues and carvings.
4-Some learners share in sporting activities like football, basketball, volleyball, handball, tennis and others.
1- The learner can listen and answer exercises in his workbook.
2- The learner can listen to a tape and speak.
3- The learner can listen to a situation and answer questions.
4- The learner can read, think and answer and he learner can read a passage or a topic and write a report.
5- The learner can listen, imagine and guess.
6-The learner can think, compare and evaluate.
7-The learner can correct others' mistakes through pair work.
8-The learner practices critical thinking through group work .
9-The teacher can do interaction with his learners to enable them to participate in learning.
10-The teacher enables learners to share in actual situations
11-The teacher enables the learner to express his opinions and solutions to the problems.
12-The learners answer puzzles, sing learning songs with jazz music and do:( Interactive games, Card games, Classic games, Miming games and quiz games ).
13- The learner understands, draws , paints and designs real things out of the available teaching material.
14- The learner can consult a dictionary, an encyclopedia, listen to a tape and watch a video tape , a CD or a power-point program.
15- The teacher gives the learners the chance to listen, see, listen and see, watch teaching films and overhead projectors, demonstrate, act the roles, exchange roles to illustrate the learning process and change the theoretical tropics into real and actual situations.
16- The learner must think, pair, share, notice, observe, agree with, disagree with,dialogue with himself and with his peers .
17- How wonderful if the teacher transfers the outer environment into class as real things to be used in learning.
18-The learner can learn through doing, dialoguing, discussion, debates and conferencing.
19-The learner transmits what he learns to others through the principle of learning through teaching.
20-The role of the teacher becomes the rol of a facilitator, a monitor, a guide and an adviser.
Another calssification for CCA:
Subject-Based Activities
Each discrete subject has a series of topics that can be taught or reinforced through activities in which students directly apply knowledge and information to discover meaning. For instance, educators may use role play in a social studies class in which students act out opposing sides of an issue to better understand the content. In earth science, a teacher may initiate a search and discovery activity in which students identify real world phenomenon they have studied.
Technology-Based Activities
There are numerous Internet and computer-based activities that allow students to experience multimedia learning of subjects such as math and science. These kind of activities include media literacy and software and hardware design projects.
Career-Skills Activities
Often used in secondary education, career skills activities function as a method to prepare students for the world of work. Typically, there is little time for activities focusing on career skills within the normal school day, but out-of-school time and after-school programs can provide this level of learning.
Collaboration Activities
Post high school, however, an individual's success relies largely on her ability to work with others. Collaboration activities cultivate skills such as team work, communication and tolerance. These activities are non academic in nature, interactive and enjoyable.
- Better educational outcomes.
- Enhanced school engagement and sense of belonging.
- Positive youth development / lifeskills.
- Healthier behaviours.
- Post high school positive results.
- Developing better citizens.
- School and community benefits.
- Final thought about the studied case.
. They provide a productive break from study.
. They can help learners build their skills outside classroom.
. They can open your child’s mind to new interests (and views).
. They look good on a résumé.
. They provide social opportunities.
2-(Extra-Curriculum Activities)
(ECA)
( Activities outside classroom )
They are practiced outside classroom inside school. They include:
- Sports, including soccer, baseball, scooter racing, hockey, swimming
- Performing arts, including dance, drama, ballet, choir, and band
- Creative arts, including painting, drawing, crafts.
Also, the learners learn how to do collaborative projects through sharing in the school broadcast programs, school theater, school library, classes quiz, the school bulletin board, the school English club and the school magazine. Learners learn how to be responsible fore doing activities through the roles they play collaboratively and democratically.
4: Building self-esteem.
5: Building friendships and teamwork skills.
6:Creating Safer, Happier Children.
7:Promoting Healthy Hobbies.
8:Encouraging a Brighter Future.
9:Improving Life and Social Skills.
Why should I participate?
Schoolwork can become very stressful and at times, you need something to get it off your mind. Extracurricular activities also look good to colleges. They like to know that you are doing things other than schoolwork.These activities also include:
- Debate Drama Sports games School journalism
- Fan clubs Reading Robotics Entrepreneurship Soccer
- Orchestra Band Choir Art Yearbook Tutoring
Other Examples
A-Inside school
School English Club:
Definition:
It is an activity where learners meet to practise using English in a relaxed informal environment and friendly setting. The most obvious extracurricular activity is a club. Most high schools offer a wide variety of clubs. They can range anywhere from a robotics club to a film club. These clubs can give you a fun alternative to things you learn in school. They can also be a great way to make new friends who have the same interests as you. Get out of your comfort zone and join a club that peaks your interest. There are also some ways to form clubs at your school. Clubs such as the Beta club and National Honors Societies looks very good on college applications. They require you to work very hard at your studies but also offer cool group events.
Benefits:
It:
1-Encourage participants to bring in their own content.
2-Asks participants questions about their lives.
3-Divides participants into small groups to do activities.
4-Gives participants opportunities to express themselves creatively through drama, poetry or storytelling.
5-Gives learners fun, humor, freedom, a chance to meet new people and make new friends.
Activities:
1-Discussions about childhood.
2-Playing music and songs.
3-Giving opinions about books and authors.
4-Online activities.
Extension:
Each group does a topic presentation once a month.
Click here to go to : School English club.
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Extra Curriculum Activity
Bulletin Board and school magazines activity group
Definition:
1-Learners write about English culture every week.
2-They prepare a monthly English school magazine.
Tools:
1-School board in the school court.
2-Big paper sheets for the magazines.
3-Essays about famous people.
Content:
1-School instructions.
2-Wise sayings.
3-Proverbs.
4-Poetry.
5-Cultures.
Click here to go to : School bulletin board.
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Extra curriculum Activity:
Library
Aims:
1-Developing the soul of researching for knowledge.
2-Encouraging independent learning.
3-Providing learners with knowledge about other countries and other people.
4-Developing the soul of share, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creation, and imagination.
Strategy:
1-The selected learners go to the school library once a week.
2-They read about science, literature, maths, social studies, athletics or arts.
Procedure:
1-Learners collect knowledge.
2-Learners can visit museums or associations to support their work.
3-This activity is coordinated by school but not graded and not connected to academic learning.
Examples:
Learners read about famous people like Dr Magdy Yakob,Ahmed Zowail,Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Farouk El Baz...
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Extra Curriculum Activity
School broadcast
Definition:
It is an activity where selected learners introduce regular programs every Sunday morning during the school queue.
Aims:
1-Supporting share, independent learning and researching.
2-Learning responsibility.
3-Self-confidence.
4-Encouraging talents, creation and innovation.
Plan:
This activity is not graded. They are coordinated by school, but not connected to academic learning.
The activity learners group meet to set and discuss the performance of the weekly English program under my supervision.
Course content:
1-School instructions and activities.
2-Local community news.
3-Simple political news.
4-General cultural, social, scientific and environmental information.
5-Athletics, space and art news.
5-Geographical and history information about other countries.
3-Click here to go to : School English broadcast.
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Sports
The School Play
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Extra-Curricula activities:
School competitions and contests:
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B- Outside school
These activities are practiced outside the school. Learners visit the realistic education sites like museums, hotels, historic monuments, farms, fields and factories to learn practical learning and gain practical experiences out of practical learning to acquire good manners and values. Learners learn to do small real projects, researches and reports and to solve problems on their own to pave the way to the independent learning and learning through discovery.
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Extra Curriculum Activity
School journeys
Aims:
Linking education to real daily life and the environment.
Strategy:
1-Practical learning.
2-Learning through projects, researches and group work.
3-Usaing direct and indirect environmental material.
4-Encouraging critical thinking(Applicability, analysis, synthesis, evaluation).
5-This activity is not connected to academic learning.
6-It is not graded.
Procedure:
Learners visit realistic education sites like museums, hotels, historic monuments, fields, farms and factories to gain practical experiences by themselves.
Learners learn to solve problems on their own to pave the way to the independent learning and learning through their own discovery.
Extension:
Learners visit our national museums to explore about the Pharaohs.
Ckick here to go to : A learning and Teaching Environment.
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Extra-Curricula activities:
1-Athletics.
2-Visiting fairs and exhibitions
Extra-curricula activities are not connected to academic learning and not graded.
Aims:
The aim of this activity is developing the 4 language skills.
Learners work in pairs and groups practically.
Strategy:
Learning through brainstorming, solving problems, active learning and humour.
Procedure:
1-learners must be mentally, physically, environmentally and emotionally involved.
2-Learners draw, paint, trace, mime, sing, play music, imitate and point.
3-They walk, listen, observe, speak, read, act, answer, write, play roles, report, use technology, use electronic programs and dialogue.
4-They interact with the teacher, the set-book, the teaching material and the environment.
5-They debate and interview.
6-The learner applies, analyses, synthesizes, evaluates.
7-They are graded.They are connected to academic learning.
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C-Course content for the co-curriculum activities:
10-Classroom Activity 10
11-Benefits of Classroom Activities
12-Pums, puzzles and Riddles.
13-Story Jokes for real communication
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D-Lighter Slides:
1-Lighter slides: 1, 2, 3, 4.
2-Funny Stories.
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E-Activities, External links:
1-Classroom activity 11.
2-High school Activities.
3-Middle schools Activities.
4-Elementary schools Activities.
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