Internship Reflection

My internship takes place in Youth Service America (YSA), a non-profit organization based in Washington DC. Since it was established in 1989, YSA’s mission has been to encourage youth to make a positive impact in this world. Furthermore, YSA also focuses on educating youth about global issues and celebrates young people that are already facilitating change. For my internship, I work twenty hours a week; these hours are split among three days.

What I learned in the documentary called “The First Year” is the aspects of each teacher’s way they deal a classroom with students as first-timers. Especially when coming across to many challenges and the struggle they had during their first time ever as educators. Watching what lengths they will go to for the benefit of the students is admirable. The teachers who are into five separate schools in the Los Angeles area are known to be George Acosta who teaches English as a second language, Joy Kraft-Watts teaches high school history, Genevieve Debose teaches middle school language arts and social studies, Maurice Rabb teaches kindergarten, Nate Monley teaches fifth-grade bilingual education, and Andrew Glass teaches elementary special education.

I have not yet worked in a school setting, but I have worked in several agencies and offices where collaboration with colleagues was present. One agency I have worked in was a domestic violence shelter, which housed up to forty-five women and children. In addition, we ran a twenty-four hour crisis hotline, provided individual and group counseling services, and educated those out in the community about domestic violence. It took a lot of collaboration with colleagues to have the agency run smoothly and effectively. When issues arose with clients staying in the shelter, my colleagues and I would met to discuss the issues and how we were going to work together to solve them. Together we were able to discuss all of these factors and agree upon

In the Navy and Marine Corps providing feedback and counseling to Sailors and Marines is a critical skill that every leader must possess. For this assignment, I was tasked with providing counseling and guidance to a struggling 3/C Midshipmen in my company on how they could improve in meeting the standards with regards to morally, mentally, and physically. For the counseling, I chose 3/C Burns who was struggling academically with a D at six weeks in Thermodynamics, a major course in his matrix. With this Midshipman struggling to meet the mission mentally, I was keen on attacking the issue before it developed into a major problem by providing advice, counseling, and a personal story of being in his place before.

This fall semester, I carried out an internship in the legal department of El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center. I assisted the legal program coordinator in filling out paperwork for clients and sat in on consultations with El Sol’s laborers about immigration and visa status, wage disputes, traffic tickets, and other legal troubles. On my first day, I quickly learned how difficult it is, as a part of a non-profit organization, to give people all the help that they need. Part of El Sol’s mission is to “give services to those in need” and they succeed at that in many ways. For example, El Sol’s School for Parents program taught parents positive reinforcement techniques for disciplining their children, such as praising good behavior and listening to their kids. The program as very well-liked by the participants, who felt that they learned useful lessons through the classes. However, in the legal department, it was more difficult to help people to the full extent of their needs.

First, I learned that I need further development or additional polishing in numerous facets of becoming an effective communicator, and these aspects are audience analysis and strategy, oral communication, team communication, and corporate communication. After completing the Communication Development Plan, I am beginning to learn how to analyze audiences and develop a thorough communication strategy efficiently. Also, I am learning how to deliver impromptu or planned presentations efficiently, and I am starting to become more comfortable and less hesitant in giving presentations. After analyzing the Communication Development Plan and through class assignments, I have become more creative and relaxed in the team situations. Additionally, I have gained insight on how to effortlessly communicate in a corporate environment, and that I can apply what I learned in this class to my workplace. Lastly, I gained valuable knowledge and insight that can aid my professional growth.

I am an incoming international student this Fall 2016 at Princeton Theological seminary, but since my Master of Divinity days I have been actively serving as part of the leadership team of the AAR-SBL Women’s Caucus for the past three years. Since 2013, I have been involved in planning the Women’s Caucus sessions for the AAR-SBL annual conferences as well as prepare the minutes of our monthly leadership meetings and annual business meetings. I am a recent member of AAR, but I have been participating in the past four years at the AAR-SBL annual meetings and mostly found myself engaged more with AAR people. My membership at SBL since 2012 was due to its international coalition initiatives. At last year’s AAR-SBL annual conference, I successfully

At this stage of my career, it makes sense that I enroll in the Collegewide Leadership Development Program because I’ve performed many administration and management tasks such as, but not limited to: Chairing the collegewide AET/CMT curriculum redesign, provided leadership as President of the Faculty Senate for two years, acquired articulation agreements with senior institutions, and provided Blackboard and mentorship support to adjuncts.

I have been at my site for about six weeks now and I feel much more comfortable in my current abilities. I have been working on my case summaries and treatment plans further this week. I have realized that keeping a client’s file in order can be a lot of work. Making sure that everything is in the file is very important for any mental health setting, but since my site is a training clinic we are taught to keep our files up to date and have taught me about what can happen if you do not for our future as mental health professionals. As a student who is assigned to check audits (for my graduate assistantship) at the practice I can now appreciate the other side of keeping my own files in order. I like that we have high standards at my site and

I have an interest in interning at the Strong-Garner-and Bauer law firm, but when I went onto their website they didn't have any internship information available. I was just wondering how I could find out if they're offering an internship this summer? Should I just call and ask or should I send someone an email? Can you tell me what I should do

This summer I had the chance to take on a great challenge. I completed 120 hours for my internship while at the same time working as fulltime employee. I truly mean it when I say it was a great challenge. In only 2 months I completed 120 hours in an office that was only open 8-5 Monday through Friday. I know it may seem reasonable to others and you might even ask why that would be something so difficult for me to do but it was very tough. You see, I work my total of 40 hours a week at my current job and to add more hours to my schedule seemed pretty exhausting. Unfortunately, I am not as privileged as other to have an amazing schedule like 8 to 5 or weekends off. I work overnight. Now everyone knows usually the night shift is more relaxed in

In September of 2016 I was made aware of the Peer Mentorship program and my high school and immediately knew that I wanted to become a mentor as being able to help others has also been a desire of mine. I have since been tutoring a handful of my peers in math, biology, chemistry and physics at all high school levels. While I don't have an undeviating schedule, I typically have a few sessions (anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour) per week. My experience as a mentor up until now has given me an increased level of consciousness regarding the intricacy, significance, and benefits of teaching others. Being presented with the opportunity to teach others has prompted me to amplify my communicative skills. I have also gained self-confidence. Being

As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this

It has been a while since I started at the internship and I am really glad I decided to work here. I think the experience in this area is a good preview of my career and future. I am learning some important skills and finding out some things about myself and the tough skin I will need in order to stay in the area of juvenile support.

Summer interns and long term interns were required to participate in a capstone project. We were randomly assigned into 5 different groups and each group had to pick a topic that was going to be presented on in front of the executive team and all the managers. We started this project around the second week of June and the presentation was July 31st. During this week, my team and I met about once a week for the first couple of weeks and after a while, we met twice a week or more. During these meetings, we brainstormed topics for the presentation and eventually decided on a topic. Intern Connectivity was what we agreed to focus on. We realized that the interns weren’t really interacting with each other as much as they should. We wanted to find a way to make it easier for the interns to get to know each other both in the workplace and outside of the workplace. SURVEY We decided to create a demo/ mock website using wix.com and we wanted to put what we had in mind on what seemed like the most convenient platform for interns to connect to. Our vision is that this website will be updated and maintained by future interns and could possibly be partnered with communications and grant them access to the website. Ideally, we would like to see this website/ outline be part of the bank’s blink website, as maybe another tab, etc. Interns can access this website and use is as a resource while also use it to connect with the other interns. We created different tabs such as a newsletter,