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Our proposal addresses Strategy Seven, increasing the number of college graduates in San Marcos. Students who are <br />better prepared academically and understand expectations of college life are much more likely to be successful. <br />Goals for the program: <br />· Increase college access for underserved students <br />· Increase college success for first year students. <br />How will they know they met these goals: We will know we have met our first goal by examining the number of <br />college applications that we have assisted or completed during an Academic Year.We will know we met the second goal <br />by examining if first year students are retained after first year of college to second year. <br />Number of clients served yearly:3500Number of direct clients served ONLY in San Marcos: 1500 <br />Amount Requested: $5,000Commission on Children and Youth Recommendation: $4,000 <br />Texas State University <br />Caminitos Collaborative-Fine Motor Progression –This program will be centered on engaging 4 and 5 year old <br />preschool children who are lacking in fine motor skills in a mastery motivational climate (MMC). The children will be pre <br />and post tested using Movement ABC. A curriculum will be developed based on pretest outcomes using a MMC. <br />Research has shown that utilization of a MMC, allows children to have both control over their learning as well as develop <br />confidence in weak areas by allowing them to choose where they need the majority of the work.The services will <br />provide extra fine motor work for low income children. Often times, children who are of low socio economic status <br />struggle in fine motor control when compared to their counterparts. Low abilities in fine motor control are often linked <br />to low literacy, math, and gross motor progressions. <br />How they will measure program success: Success will be defined as children gaining fine motor skills at a faster rate <br />when compared to previous years as well as MMC being incorporated into classrooms at BohnamPrekindergarten. <br />Measurement will be gained through use of the Movement ABC(quantitative)and the qualitative data assessed from <br />the observations. In addition, positive comments from faculty on the achievements of children through frequent “check <br />ins” will also be a measure of success. <br />Priority Areas that this program will fulfill: Goal 1: Strategies 1 and 2-This program will continue and strengthen the <br />relationship between Texas State and Bohnam Prekindergarten. Once the data is collected, The program coordinator will <br />share the findings with teachers and administration to hopefully strengthen the need for MMC in early childhood. By <br />showing the data that MMC can provide where fine motor control is concerned, this should prompt more teachers to <br />use this intheir classrooms when compared to more traditional methods of fine motor instruction. <br />Goal 2: Strategy 2 This program will assess the activities of children that will be a precursor the future progression of <br />other skills. This program will give information on two areas; deficiency in fine motor skills and does MMC in early <br />childhood work where fine motor skills are concerned. <br />Goals for the program: The goals for the 2018-2019 year would be as follows: quantitative change in fine motor <br />measures from pre topost testing; children show qualitative changes toward fine motor behaviors by way of attitudinal <br />changes in and out of the classroom; and teachers at Bohnam Prekindergarten incorporate MMC into classrooms into a <br />portion of the day. <br />How will they know they met these goals: The children will be tested using Movement ABC. This is a valid and reliable <br />measure that measures fine motor control of preschool children. This measure will show the quantitative changes in the <br />fine motor skills.Qualitative changes will be tabulated through observation from graduate assistants. These assistants <br />will be responsible for both the pre and post testing, therefore they will be aware of attitudinal changes throughout the <br />program. These behaviors will betallied during fine motor intervention sessions using observational checklists. For goal <br />three, the program coordinator will plan an after school in-service to introduce MMC and show the positive outcomes <br /> <br />