This week consisted of many practice presentations due to the fact that the program comes to an end next week. During each practice presentation I gave advice to each student as how to make improvements. I felt like this was an important role because I could tell the students were very nervous presenting a college presentation in front of a large audience. My other main task for this week regarding the students consists of planning and implementing activities in the evenings. These activities included shaving cream fights, freeze tag, ships and sailors, as well as other fun, engaging activities. I really enjoyed to see the students laughing and having a good time because they have all discussed with me how stressed out they have been recently. Other than those main activities, I spent a lot of my days organizing fall and spring student information, working on a job description for any future interns, and making sure everything is ready for the summer program presentation next week. I have realized during this internship that not only am I playing a role in relieving stress for my students but for my supervisor as well. I am taking a lot of the busy work that he used to have to complete and doing it myself. This allows him to have more free time to do more important tasks. I had never realized how useful to other people this internship would be. I have listed to corresponding responsibilities and competencies for the previous activities below.
- Responsibility II: Plan Health Education Strategies, Interventions and Programs
- Competency A: Involve people and organizations in program planning
- identify populations for health education programs
- elicit input from those who will affect or be affected by the program
- obtain commitment from individuals who will be involved
- develop plans for promoting collaborative efforts among health agencies and organizations with mutual interests
- Competency C: Formulate appropriate and measurable program objectives
- design developmentally appropriate interventions
- Competency F: Select appropriate strategies to meet objectives
- match health education services to proposed program activities
- Competency A: Involve people and organizations in program planning
- Responsibility III: Implement Health Education Strategies, Interventions and Programs
- Competency B: Demonstrate a variety of skills in delivering strategies, interventions, and programs
- use instructional technology effectively
- Competency C: Use a variety of methods to implement strategies, interventions, and programs
- demonstrate skills needed to develop capacity for improving health status
- incorporate demographically and culturally sensitive techniques when promoting programs
- implement intervention strategies to facilitate health-related change
- Competency B: Demonstrate a variety of skills in delivering strategies, interventions, and programs
- Responsibility V: Administer Health Education Strategies, Interventions, and Programs
- Competency A: exercise organizational leadership
- conduct strategic planning
- analyze the organization’s culture in relationship to program goals
- promote cooperation and feedback among personnel related to the program
- Competency C: manage human resources
- develop volunteer opportunities
- Competency A: exercise organizational leadership
The photo on the left is of two students playing a game and enjoying the outdoors. The photo on the right is a selfie of me with the girls in the background taking photos and wandering around the founders garden.