During this past spring, I did my Bucks County Community College Sport Management Internship at the Lower Bucks Family YMCA. According to the YMCA’s website in regards to their focus on youth development, states that,” At the Y, our sports staff, coaches and volunteers all share a singular vision of helping all youth reach their full potential in life. We leverage the excitement and passion around recreational and competitive programming to create a healthy outlet for children to gain new skills, develop a sense of team and connect with positive role model.” The overview of this unpaid (voluntariness) internship was for me to acquire knowledge and experience in this field when working. From the course of this internship, I oversaw numerous
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The reason why I took over full command was the other instructor had to leave to attend to his son’s baseball game. Although, the overall class was going as planned with two instructors prior (determinism), however, the remainder of the session definitely escalated rather quickly than expected. Nearing the end of class involved two other children in the class started to brawl (soft determinism) with one another. This situation was just shocking to me as I did not know what I was witnessing altogether. Usually, I don’t like to intervene with those kind of situations and just let kids handle their own problems, however, I could have taken action, but before asking for further assistance, a parent took action themselves to break the fight between both kids, therefore, bringing it to my attention …show more content…
This would have been the ideal situation because this is the correct procedure, however, since I was in charge of a large dodgeball class of 15-25 kids, I chose to wait until it was entirely necessary to become involved. If I used the deontological theory approach, I know it is my “duty” to still take matters into my own hands, since I became in charge, however, my action would have been to obtain further assistance before someone would become seriously injured or hurt. While I did not have the other instructor, however, it is still my duty as an employee, whether I am paid or not to follow all rules and be sure that all children play safely and respectfully with each other and treat each class like it was my own. Nevertheless, I can only learn from the situation and when I am in charge to not become suddenly afraid to speak up and take absolute control of the entire
The reason why I took over full command was the other instructor had to leave to attend to his son’s baseball game. Although, the overall class was going as planned with two instructors prior (determinism), however, the remainder of the session definitely escalated rather quickly than expected. Nearing the end of class involved two other children in the class started to brawl (soft determinism) with one another. This situation was just shocking to me as I did not know what I was witnessing altogether. Usually, I don’t like to intervene with those kind of situations and just let kids handle their own problems, however, I could have taken action, but before asking for further assistance, a parent took action themselves to break the fight between both kids, therefore, bringing it to my attention …show more content…
This would have been the ideal situation because this is the correct procedure, however, since I was in charge of a large dodgeball class of 15-25 kids, I chose to wait until it was entirely necessary to become involved. If I used the deontological theory approach, I know it is my “duty” to still take matters into my own hands, since I became in charge, however, my action would have been to obtain further assistance before someone would become seriously injured or hurt. While I did not have the other instructor, however, it is still my duty as an employee, whether I am paid or not to follow all rules and be sure that all children play safely and respectfully with each other and treat each class like it was my own. Nevertheless, I can only learn from the situation and when I am in charge to not become suddenly afraid to speak up and take absolute control of the entire