Quality club experiences

Create quality experiences for your club

A high-quality youth program is one that has a safe, supportive environment, opportunity for interaction and leadership, and youth as engaged learners. This pyramid is an easy-to-read model of many of the components in a high quality youth learning environment.   

Here are some resources to build a high quality experience for the youth and families in your club.

Beginning your 4-H year

•  Welcoming new members and families 

• Goal-setting activities

• Goal-setting worksheet 

Planning your meeting time

• Pre-meeting activities

• Roll call topics

• Satisfying snack ideas

• Building your program quality 20 minutes at a time: leadership & reflection activities  Book 1

• Even more! building your programs 20 minutes at a time: leadership & reflection activities Book 2 

• R.E.E.L ‘em in with reflection, evaluation, engagement, leadership Book 3 

• Reflection activities 

Ways to support club members

• Welcoming new members and families 

• Get to know you

• Relationship builders

• Sharing ideas

• Ideas for dividing up groups

• Roles for youth leaders in 4-H clubs 

• Scaffolding learning 

Safety on site

• Site safety plan

• First aid kit contents 

Contact

Karen Beranek, Extension educator, kberanek@umn.edu, 507-337-2800