School Assembly Programs Benefits
What are the benefits of hosting school shows?
In a blog post earlier this month, you learned about what a school assembly is. Now, it’s time to talk about the benefits of having entertainment in schools. Why are guest speakers for schools important and meaningful for students?
You can watch this short video to hear about some of the benefits of educational entertainment and youth motivational speakers. Continue to read on where we expand upon the benefits of hosting school assemblies.
Why should you schedule assemblies for your school?
School assemblies are fun!
Your students will be learning without even realizing it.
More than twelve students will participate throughout the show, putting science in their hands! In this school assembly with a focus on science, the wacky and zany presenter, Dr. Science, helps students learn about the Scientific Method in a fun and straightforward way with lots of magic tricks and some comedy too!
Assembly programs are affordable!
School shows are relatively inexpensive per student when you spread out the cost of an assembly program over the entire school.
School shows are convenient!
Hosting an assembly program on location at your school is very convenient for scheduling and you don’t have to go through the cost of having a bus take all of your students on a field trip off-site. Not to mention the hassle of arranging transportation and finding chaperones. There’s also added admission fees and the cost of lunch if it’s an all-day field trip.
Multi-media storyteller, musician, and adventure cyclist George Maurer presents Tales from a Bicycle Seat, a cultural exploration of his epic journeys across the US, Iceland, Patagonia, Sri Lanka, Canada, and Vietnam.
School assemblies are for everyone!
Nothing brings a bigger headache for your already stretched-thin staff than the hassle of disseminating and gathering signatures on an endless number of permission slips to leave the school during the day. What about the students who were unable to return their permission slips? It’s devastating telling one or two students they can’t join their peers because their parents didn’t sign their forms. School shows are something everyone can be a part of, and you don’t have to leave anyone out.
This interactive bilingual assembly exposes students to the impact of Latin American music and culture and the power of embracing cultural diversity through dance and entertainment.
Assembly programs give teachers a break!
Your teachers deserve an opportunity to have someone else entertain and educate their students, even if it’s just briefly and every once in a while. School assemblies are a great way to give educators a break from entertaining on their own. For once, someone else can keep students attentive and engaged in learning for 45 minutes.
Fun assembly ideas continue the learning long after the show ends!
School staff including teachers will have many points from the assembly, whether educational or motivational, or both, to be able to refer back to with your students after the show. Many school assembly programs also include Discussion Guides for Teachers or Activity Sheets to use in classrooms after the show. The theme of your assembly could carry on throughout the week, the rest of the month, or for the entire school year!
Brian Richards will also teach your students a cool magic trick that will sharpen their math skills. They will be able to take this trick home and wow their friends and families.
School Shows are customizable based on your educational objectives.
Many assembly ideas can be customized to your school’s theme or motto for the week, month, or school year. Our Youth Motivational Speakers are professionals and able to integrate any topic into their educational entertainment program. One of the most fun programs to customize is the Unique Game show or the Virtual Game Show. By providing a short list of single-line questions and one-word answers, you can customize this program to fit any topic you wish. Check with us too, because we have several already put-together program themes to choose from, including ecology!
This multi-purpose assembly is perfect for any subject because you are able to customize the program if you wish!
Students need to hear from someone else!
Sometimes, hearing something from somebody else other than their parents or teachers, like youth motivational speakers for example, can help an important message resonate with students. If a student thinks a guest speaker is cool and has a lot of credibility, they are more likely to listen to what that person has to say.
Top-quality educational content is otherwise unavailable without assembly programs.
Did you watch the big football game on television recently? Did you see the movie trailer for A Quite Place: Day One? If you did, you heard music by our very own, Brent Daniels! With his one-of-a-kind Virtual Trailer Music Workshop and Virtual Music Technology Assembly, Brent introduces your students to the skills and technology they can use to create amazing things, just like Brent! Because of Brent’s full-time career as a music producer, sound designer, and composer, he’s only available for limited opportunities to speak to and teach students. Without virtual technology, this type of high-quality content and learning would not be available to your students!
With Brent’s one-of-a-kind Virtual Trailer Music Workshop and Virtual Music Technology Assembly, Brent introduces your students to the skills and technology they can use to create amazing things. They could even make it to the Super Bowl, just like he has!
What about learning art from an Emmy Award winner? Sure, you can catch their lessons on YouTube or TV, but in what other capacity could your entire school interact with and see Mark Kistler or Joe Wos teaching them drawing and telling them stories besides during an assembly program?
Emmy Award winning illustrator, author, and television star of PBS’s 1980’s children’s television series “The Secret City With Commander Mark!” And in the 1990’s “The Imagination Station!” – now on Amazon Prime Video! – Mark Kistler, presents Dare To Draw, an outstanding school assembly for grades K-12.
Once Upon a Toon is a unique hybrid of storytelling with live cartoon illustration. Multi-Emmy Award-winning cartoonist Joe Wos draws the stories as he tells them, in a lively and engaging program for all ages.
Where else could you learn from a Guinness World Record holder? Corey The Dribbler is an 8-time Guinness record holder for basketball dribbling. He travels the country inspiring students exclusively during assembly programs with his inspirational story and powerful character education message. John Collins is the Paper Airplane Guy, and holds the world record for paper airplane throwing distance. His presentations engage a live school audience where students can explore science using the fun and wonder of paper airplanes. Older students will even get to fold the world record paper airplane design right along with John.
Corey The Dribbler is an 8-Time Guinness record holder traveling the country inspiring students with his character message.
Planes will streak across the room, glide gently, tumble, flap their wings, circle back, flip over, fly upside down, and spin for what seems like forever. Though forever may vary! Older students most enjoy the chance to learn how to fold the world-record airplane.
Without school assembly programs, none of these opportunities, and many others, would be available to inspire your students.
How do you bring an assembly program to your school?
If you would like to learn more about school assemblies available in your area or on tour near where your school is located, reach out to us! Request pricing and dates directly from our website. You may also call us at 800-883-9883 or email info@academicentertainment.com.
