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Maximizing Student Success: Benefits of Joining Student Organizations

Discover the positive outcomes of student organization participation including scholarship, motivation, professionalism, and citizenship. Learn how involvement can lead to academic success, career readiness, and community engagement.

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Maximizing Student Success: Benefits of Joining Student Organizations

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  1. Student Organizations CTE Student Organizations Bettina Lankard Brown

  2. Outcomes of Participation • Scholarship • Motivation • Professionalism • Citizenship

  3. Scholarship • More enthusiastic about school studies • Greater value attached to school studies • More actively engaged in school activities • More likely to relate success to effort • More likely to prepare for postsecondary • More likely to attend 2- and 4-year college

  4. Motivation • Participate in career-related activities • Participate in competitions • Connect with students who share interests • Nurtures motivation for learning • Believe work in school is important to success later in life • Believe important to do their best

  5. Professionalism • Prepare for employment • Enhance self-confidence • Have more specific career goals • More likely to work while in high school • Gain valuable experiences at conferences • Apply communication, leadership, and networking skills

  6. Citizenship • More active in community activities • Include: • Job shadowing • Service projects • Student-organized field trips • Employer-employee banquets • Alumni-student gatherings

  7. Before Establishing an Organization • From the student perspective, consider: • Price of dues • Meeting times • Time involvement • Officers • Fundraising

  8. Before Establishing an Organization • From the sponsor perspective, consider: • Time involvement and commitment • Sponsor pay • Fundraising ideas • Communication • Support from administration • Interest from students • Patience

  9. Steps to Organizing a Chapter • Request materials • Meet with principal • Recruit an “organization committee” • Advertise organization • Create agenda for first meeting • Conduct membership campaign and collect dues • Approve a constitution • Elect officers

  10. Steps to Organizing a Chapter • Submit paperwork to headquarters • Conduct chartering and initiation ceremony • Train officers for roles • Plan activities • Organize committees • Establish regular meeting times • Maintain contact with state and headquarters • Review scheduled activities

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