CTE New Teacher Institute Forum: SkillsUSA Students Wanted

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

SkillsUSA Students Wanted

It's about twelve school days left in this semester and I'm not pleased with the progress my program has made. I worked very hard to promote SkillsUSA and the rewarding benefits students can gain from being a member. I showed the SkillsUSA DVD, I showed a letter of SkillsUSA winners from the National Competitions, and told them about all the self improvement workshops they would have the opportunity to attend. I had only one student to pay. I thought several other students were going to join but they never came up with the initial fee money. I then submitted a request to sell snacks and have not gotten it back yet. I was going to use some of this money to reduce the cost of the initial fee. Now it looks like it's going to be next year before I can possibly get more students to join. I was so glad that this courageous student stood tall and joined, I put on a pizza lunchon to get things off to a good start. My student enjoyed it and looks forward to SkillsUSA acitivities in the future. If anyone has a successful SkillsUSA chapter, please share the wealth! I need all the pointers I can get. Thanks in advance.

3 comments:

joec said...: Glenn
Good luck with Skills. Selling the idea of Skills was a tough go for me, at first. One thing that helped was to tempt them with the idea of "mini-competitions" within each class. You could possibly have an outside person come to do the judging, just like the real thing!
joec; November 30, 2007 at 4:48:00 PM EST
Shane C. said...: Yep, skills is tough to get members. Really and truly, the only thing it has going for it is the competitions and its hard to get any members other than competitors.; December 2, 2007 at 11:32:00 PM EST
Walter H said...: Glenn,
You are not by yourself, I have tried giving a pizza party with my own money. Showed the video, went to Jeykll Island all alone. I started doing stuff in the hallway causing students to be curious. I would allow the students to put on my drunk goggles and race up and down the halls, When student would walk by somebody would handcuff them. This is how I got student involved. I now have 30 students in Skills,not to say they are going to competed; December 9, 2007 at 3:28:00 PM EST