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*If your share involves danger to yourself or others, please email Victoria first.

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(We will all do this one the first week.  Please choose a green card to respond to the first week).

Be an open, receptive and active listener while others share. And be prepared to offer feedback, support, encouragement, or ask questions BOTH using the add comment feature in the padlet AND in class discussion. When you choose this card, you are actively responsible for leading the feedback for others.

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Do you have a topic that doesn’t quite fit into the other card categories? Use your ‘Wild Card’!

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Tell us about a cool moment/ experience/story/reflection from your internship.

What happened?

Why was this important/ special?

What are you taking forward?

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Professional Development (workshops, trainings, coursework, even new texts) is about building your skills, tools and ways of thinking to make you the best youth worker you can be.  Discuss a recent professional development opportunity you participated in. What was it? What did you learn? How can you apply it to your work?

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Do you get regular mentorship or supervision in your internship?  Do you get positive and/or constructive feedback on the work you do? Are you encouraged to reflect on your practice at your placement?  How would you change the ways you are being mentored?  Can you “mentor up” if you are not getting what you need?

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A “Dilemma of Practice” is a professional challenge or incident that YDEV leaders face in our work. This might be an ethical dilemma, a boundary issue, a question of safety or something else.

What happened? What are the implications? Next steps?

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Your YDEV ideology informs every decision you make in the field.  Discuss the similarities and/or differences between your values/ideology and that of your field placement site or supervisor.

Risk and Resiliency

Positive Youth Development

Civic Youth Development

Social Justice Youth Development

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I've been surrounded with great and positive folks in my internship. We are currently trying to fit my school schedule with their school schedule. I am excited to be part of the team!

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A cool moment that happened while I was working on part of my internship was that I honestly felt like my input was being used and meant a lot.  What I mean by that is when I was meeting with my internship leader going over my ideas and work for the YDEV website and how to make it better and more appealing I could tell it was actually being taken in and was meaningful and was seen as a positive and insightful response and not just a bunch of stuff to be pushed aside.  That was a really cool moment and felt really good to know what I was saying and suggesting was actually important.

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I attended two workshops to help me think about how I can become a better youth worker. These workshops were also trainings that not only help me see where I am right and wrong, but to help me gain confidence in my internship as well as increasing my internship hours. The workshop that resonated with me the most was: Building Equitable Learning Spaces as it helped me see how I can make sure students needs are being met. This session took place on 1/28/21 and it talked about the lives of every student, but also students of color and why they feel misunderstood and discriminated in their educational settings. Instead of leaving them disengaged them, a job for me as an educator is to become a role model to them, ask the student what they know and what brought them into the space and see how they can influence me. I am excited in working with students of different diverse backgrounds and learning needs and one way I can apply to this to my hopes/dreams is by making space for every member to learn as I learned how I must support others, respect their opinions, and pay attention to what they are trying to say to me.

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I love my mentor each week we spend normally about an hour more often more having really deep educational discussions about various areas of running an educational theatre program. Iv learned  about how a budget is created and balanced,  iv learned about how the choice is made to cut programs, most recently we discussed staff and how you keep your teachers in check with themselves. We also discussed how to let a teacher go that is not a good fit to the program.

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At my internship I have clinical coordinators for each of my clients who check in very frequently. One of the coordinators is my mentor and she is amazing! She is one of the only staff that has been there since I started this job in 2019. She always checks in through email to see If I need anything and to see how things are going. She is always one to give me positive feedback. Each shift I have with my clients (individuals we call them at KFS) I am able to reflect on how it went as I write progress notes. These are required to fill out each shift. Sometimes they seem like an inconvenience but it allows me to look back and reflect on how effective out activities were for the day. I would not change the way I am being mentored. I feel as though my mentor has given me everything Ive needed and always reaches out to check in which gives me a chance to address any concerns I have.

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I was in the class and the scholars were learning a new topic. Both of the teachers noticed that the scholars were starting to get really frustrated with not understanding the content. The teachers decided to stop everything they were doing and give the scholars a mental break, which ultimately helped them to refocus and helped them in the long run.

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At my former internship there was no scheduled time to meet with my mentor or have meetings in general in regards to youth programming. It was hard to schedule a time and place, eventually it happened with great persistence. Additionally, starting off my internship/job the main source of communication was through texting. I also persisted to start using email as a more formal way to communicate and so work didn't seep into personal life more than it needed too (although it naturally did).

In order for a mentor to be an effective leader, they should have a focused time for different areas of work. I love creative freedom and flexible work schedules but also understand the great benefit of having a basic structure to assist in focused communication & work/life boundaries.

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I have been working at the place I am fulfilling my internship hours for about a year now. Recently a lot of our staff has been changing a lot and I am one of the few that they have had stay and the one consistent staff they have right now. With all of these staff changes there has been a lot of inconsistency in the dorm. I find it important to hold the children accountable for their actions and behaviors because that is what will help them. I find it hard to hold them accountable when other staff have been letting them get away with so much. My supervisor and I agree on this but it is still difficult to get all the staff on the same page.