My role was to watch the teens, transport them from location to location and make sure they were having a good time. Before going to the camp I was a bit nervous of how the weekend was going to go. I was unsure of the capabilities of the teens. The camp started Friday afternoon but I did not start my hours until Saturday afternoon. I was first to go to the Lighthouse and get a Lighthouse vehicle. Then from there I met the students at the Marshall High School gym. When I arrived the staff, and the teens and their families were setting up a game called goal ball. Goal ball is a game where there is a ball that has bells in it, that is rolled across the gym floor into the opponents goal. The players have to then locate the ball by listening for it, and grabbing it making sure it doesn’t go into their goal. Then they roll it back towards the other team’s goal. I have never seen this game played, but the teens were having a fun time with it. Also, some of the parents and siblings played the game with the teens, who have a vision loss. Those who did not have a vision impairment received blinding goggles, so everyone had equal site abilities. I was surprise that some of the students also wore the goggles because they could still see a great deal. During the game, I supervised making sure no one was getting hurt and retrieving the …show more content…
ball when it would go out of bounds. I would also, direct the players to where the ball was or where they were facing, so they could be effective at playing the game. When the game finished, the teens were allowed to take showers.
I was beginning to learn that the teens were able to perform many of their daily tasks on their own. I become more comfortable with interacting with them, even though I would catch myself saying over there, or other directional phrases that they could not understand due to having a vision loss. Also, we did not have a male chaperone so, I was nervous with letting the boys be in the showers by themselves. If something were to happen in the showers I would not have known what to do in that situation. Then after the students had showered, I set up the pizza and drinks for the
families.
As previously mentioned in my planning stage, I had chosen to assist ‘David’ to partake in a group basketball game for completion of my HNC Social Care Graded Unit project. In studying David’s support plan; I had identified his social skills needed slight improvement, with his self-motivation needing most encouragement. I believe the group sports activity we planned and performed met these objectives. Additionally, my placement supervisor has forwarded confirmation of the successful completion of this task via email to my senior lecturer.
Both the volunteers and children were timid, but because of my natural imagination and easy-going nature with the children, I started telling silly stories they spent minutes laughing over and then watched them stretch their faces in front of my camera. I learned that I had a natural ability to start a movement, connect two different groups of people, and create bonds between them. Again, I was also shown with this ability when a fight emerged from my other group of younger volunteers. Many of them were angry at our group leader, all declaring to act out in some form of rebellion as revenge. Although I was angry at her myself, I respected my leader and refused to take a part of it. Instead of arguing, I talked to them and explained our leader’s possible situation. I have always had the ability to understand another person’s point of view, so I explained to them that taking care of twenty young teenagers is challenging and knowing each of our individual situations was difficult. Instead, I proposed we talk about our problems with our leader peacefully, which was what we ended up doing and created a tighter, stronger bond in our
Last summer I participated as a counselor in a program from the National Inventors Hall of Fame called Camp Invention. This camp is created for children from kindergarten through sixth grade in order to explore STEM careers by participating in six different sessions each with their own curriculum. I worked with another girl counselor to keep track of the kindergarteners and first graders. Each session had it’s own teacher and curriculum, while the other counselor and I would set up the activity they would be doing during their time there. The kids were very amiable, however, there were some instances where the kids would start fighting with one another or get frustrated when their inventions would not work. The other counselor and I administered
Imagine living in a world without basketball. Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world, especially in the United States. In large cities and universities, fans will devote the entire day to watching a game. It is a sport that many people are strongly passionate about, and loyal fans will go all out to show support for their team. There are also famous student sections that are home to the craziest of fans such as Duke’s Cameron Crazies, Virginia’s Hoo Crew, and Florida’s Rowdy Reptiles. However, there is a huge problem beginning to unfold in basketball and it is called the three-pointer. The three-pointer was a great addition to the game at first, but it will ultimately lead to the end of basketball as we know it. Introducing threes lead to players getting better and when players get better we end up seeing people like Steph Curry, then everyone focusses on only shooting threes and at that point, it is no longer basketball as we know it.
DJ and I coached a fifth grade, early season practice; our objective for practice was to teach fundamental skills needed in order to play basketball, those skills consist of layups, jump shots, foul shots, and passing techniques. I believe if we had come up with a stronger, more specific objective, rather than overemphasizing the technical drills, our practice could have been more successful and our athletes would have been more engaged. We decided to break into two separate groups of 6 when performing drills in order for each athlete to get multiple turns, and to avoid having athletes standing and waiting, however to explain each drill, we gathered as a group so everyone received the same information regarding the drill being performed. We
vive you need to get back up and keep trying until you get it right. Basketball is like school because you have to learn how to play the game of basketball to excel in the sport. Basketball is like school because your coach is like the principle, and you need to follow the rules like in school. The teammates are like your classmates. To win the game you need to play defense and offensive, and it's like school because you need to study and do homework too.
If you are in charge of coaching a young elementary school basketball team that is geared towards students in kindergarten through second grade, a large part of your practice should be focused on allowing the kids to handle the ball in a fun, supportive environment. At this age, your players just need to learn how to become comfortable with a basketball. Here are a few fun basketball handling challenges that are aimed towards very young players.
When I got there on the first day, I didn’t know where to go and what to do. Right away, I was asked to go and play with the kids that were arriving and start to get to know them. When I saw the kids running around wildly and fighting for the basketballs, I knew that this was going to be a pretty tough job. Once all the kids arrived, the Directors of the program who were going to supervise us Youth Leaders gave us our schedules and also our age group for the kids that each of us were going to be taking care of. I received the 10 and 11 year olds, which I did not know where they were. One of the directors whose name was Devonte told me that we had to scream out our age group to let the kids know where to line up. I’m not to much of a screamer, so it was really difficult to get all the kids in my group to get in line, but thankfully one of my partners, Jada who was going to be helping me screamed really loud to get all of the kids’ attention. “Ten and eleven, get in line right here please!” After that, we took the kids to one of their first
Down the court, Corey is running. Six foot three inches, short brown hair nearly all of it stuck to his head, sweat dripping from his face to the floor. He looks as if he had just taken a shower. It is now the 4th quarter 8 seconds on the clock the score is 50-52, Corey gets a pass in the outside. Now 5 seconds on the clock, Corey is tenser than ever to make this shot and win the game to take a final win for the season, and for the end of Corey’s high school career. Corey relaxes and takes a breath, now 3 seconds on the clock, Corey hears nothing but the sound of his beating heart nearly beating out of his chest, and sounds like a energetic octopus banging a drum 8 times each second. As Corey looks down his jersey and remembers why he plays the game he looks down to his white, size 14, basketball shoes on the near end of their days and remembers how hard he has worked for this and how all the effort may now pay off. He focuses.
The environment throughout the weekend could be described as chaotic, crowded, and loud. As previously mentioned, this group had four of the youth had low IQs and two had well documented behavioral issues. Without knowing the fully histories of the participants, I knew of at least two youth who had been hospitalized for suicidal behaviors. Three of the young women have acted out sexually towards boys and men of all ages. This is all to say that this was a complex group and each of the youth had varying levels of need, and they required a lot of supervision. The focus on supervision takes away from the leader’s ability to utilize the necessary therapeutic factors. Thinking about this helped me to be more empathetic towards the youth who were arguing with one another. If I was not able to effectively intervene, how could I expect my group to behave in a way that I was unable to support in
Down two with six seconds to go fatigue had taken it tolls on the players. With little energy left; over time was not an option. I knew I had to go for the win. I walk on the floor confident of my ability that was until the whistle blew quickly turning my confident to butterflies. As I fought to get open I quickly saw the ball coming my way. As I rose for a jump shot time itself began to stay still. An in flesh everything became silent. As I watch the ball leave my hand I envisioned greatness; sure the ball was on its way in I started to celebrate that was until I hear the announcer say my teammate tip in miss shot to win us the game. Mix with emotion I celebrate with my teammate. “Ok guys, we have 24 hours until tip off. Get some rest because this is going to be the biggest game of your life. Let’s bring this championship back to Barton College. Go Bulldogs and Goodnight!” Why few players stay in the lobby to hang out I took it talk upon to work on my game and reflect on the semifinal game that just took place. At basketball games you will notice how there are all sorts of fans attending the game.
When I first got to the classroom the students were doing a listening exercise and had to answer same question the teacher wrote on the board. At a certain time they all were allowed to go to the bathroom. Each student was given a responsibility in the classroom.
It was then I was approached to help Freddie, who is mentally challenged, prepare for the upcoming "Challenger Little League." In the league disabled children play, and "normal" kids act as their "buddies" to help move the game along. Freddie's mom and mine thought it would be a good idea because I would be helping Freddie get ready for the league, and doing something for Freddie might make me feel better about myself.
After the first lesson, I feel that there is definitely the positive and negatives to the lesson and there is still a lot of aspect to coaching a sport I need to learn about. One aspect that I learnt from this first lesson is defiantly being flexible and adaptable. This is important for physical education teachers and teacher in general as there are no two days the same, so being flexiable and adapatble is vital (Robinson, 2014). An possible examle is unsuitable weather conditions.
...them to go, I will say something. During the week we spent with the grade sixes and sevens, I was one of the main speakers; I felt it necessary to help these kids have as much fun as they could, while also learning how to appreciate nature. I have always been a kid person, and was thrilled to see these kids having as much fun as we were. In mentoring situations, I find that I always step up as I enjoy helping others in any way possible. I believe that this is due to growing up with a younger brother and many younger cousins. I have always felt it was my role to be the best role model they could have, and to help them realize that being the best isn’t the best, but that it is best to just be you and to be happy with yourself. When in a mentoring situation in Outdoor Leadership, I apply the same principles, and therefore feel very responsible for that person or persons