KIDS FIRST! All-Star Assets

APPEAL

• Engaging and entertaining for both adults and children.
• Appropriately paced, not too fast or slow. Holds your interest.
• Suitable for the intended audience.                                          
• Great use of humor, appropriate for audience.
• Takes on difficult issues and addresses them sensitively.

PRODUCTION VALUE

• Exhibits cinema graphic, technical, artistic or musical excellence.
• Demonstrates excellence in sound or visual quality.
• Sets, costumes, special effects or other physical attributes are outstanding.           

  PERSONAL COMPETENCE

• Provides social, personal or educational challenges appropriate for the intended audience.
• Encourages self-esteem or positive self concept.
• Teaches life skills such as organizational or decision making skills.
• Encourages children to stand up for beliefs and handle peer pressure.
• Assists children in working through problems or emotional issues.
  

SOCIAL VALUE

• Broadens the child’s global perspective
• Creates interest in issues such as the environment, world peace or human and animal rights.
• Enhances life experiences typical in a child's daily life.
• Promotes pro-activity instead of reactivity.
• Promotes balanced appreciation of self and others.      
• Promotes acceptance and respect for cultural diversity, lifestyle and individuality.
• Promotes service to and compassion for others.
• Promotes healthy lifestyle.
• Inspires children to find reasonable, positive solutions to problems.
• Provides positive role models for interpersonal relationships, addressing issues such as making friends, resolving conflict in non-violent ways or overcoming fears.
• Offers a positive and hopeful view of the future.

EDUCATIONAL VALUE

• Provides accurate facts and information.
• Simulates curiosity and encourages a child to think, reason, question and experiment.
• Demonstrates the application of knowledge.
• Stimulates language development.
• Teaches and models specific subjects or how to accomplish a specific task.
• Heightens a child’s educational aspirations, developing increased career awareness and realistic goals.
• Promotes the importance of knowledge.
• Instills pride in personal achievement. 
• Accentuates the value of effort as opposed to perfection.
• Promotes the development of analytical and non-reactive decision-making skills.

This guide should will help you identify the assets that are potentially available in an All-Star title.  Some programs may only exhibit a few of these assets, others will have many. Please recommend a title for All-Star status if you feel that it contains a significant and balanced amount of these assets. Be sure to include