Today I had a formal interview with my mentor, and I learned more than I had originally thought I would. My specific form of interview was a basic question and answer. I was unable to attend my regular basketball games to to the games I was playing in, which went fairly well. We won one lost one. I have begun looking into locations to host practices for Sundays when I cant make the Saturday games so I can still get a little help in, But most importantly I got my interview done. My main takeaway from the interview was to have patience an to really focus on strengths rather than weaknesses. I learned many things about the type of work Stuart has done and it really interested me. She shared with me many different stories about people overcoming adversity and having fun while doing it. The stories made me interested in possibly pursuing a similar career in the future. As someone who competes in athletics the most important thing that I learned was that the setbacks or deficits one might have do not matter when they are paired with a determined attitude to succeed.
My list of questions I asked is as follows:
1. What would you recommend I do in order to accommodate for
the different disabilities someone might have?
2. What would you consider to be the main struggle of
working with people who have disabilities?
3. What made you interested in doing this kind of work?
4. How has your view of your work changed before and after
your experience?
5. What do you think I could do to make a bigger impact on
what I am doing?
6. How has your view on sports and athletics changed since
working at the facility?
7. How has your idea of people who have disabilities changed
since starting your work?
Harrison, I really like your takeaway from the interview. I wonder if you could add more on how you could use this advice or dive deeper into your thinking on future with this sort of thing.
Yesterday was a complete success. Yesterday I participated in coaching our first game. The team I worked with consisted of 5 players including my older sister. We played one 30 minute game. The game was much different than any other competitive sport I have been apart of. Both teams were very supportive of each other. Any time someone scored both teams would cheer. No one was focused on the score of the game, and even now writing this I could not tell you the score. I do not know the score because it did not matter to anyone. all the players and their families were just happy to be out playing and having a good time. Many of the kids who struggled to move or focus had their parents or a friend with them helping them to play. This was a real eye opening experience that changed how I look at what sports can mean to people. Throughout the entire game the players from each team were giving out high fives, fist bumps, and chee...
Hello my name is Harrison. I am starting basketball clinics for kids who have disabilities which prevent them from being able to participate in other sports. My goals for these clinics are to give opportunities to kids who are often left out of sports or other activities a group in which they can take part in a fun active sport. I hope to promote to the kids the fun of being apart of a team as well as instilling a value of being active. I plan to track my progress by creating videos with the kids taking part in the different games and drills then eventually putting all the videos together to share one big compilation displaying all the progress made by the kids in the clinics. Another way I will be tracking the progress of the clinics is through the different drills we will cover each week. We will work to understand the basic skills in basketball that will help to eventually be used in games that we will be playing by the end of the clinics. Please help me...
This week I met with a close family friend who has done some extensive work in the field of adapted sports. My friend worked at the U.S. Paralympics facility where she learned the different ways people with limited abilities are able to compete in athletics. She taught me how her and her colleagues come up with activities for people with physical disabilities. The most important thing I learned from my friend is that with limited mobility people cannot compete the same as others, so instead of trying to push through the problems that might arise you can try to find new ways to go around them. I think that this will help me in the future by allowing me to understand the difficulties the children are facing and allow me to help them create a new way to overcome them. In the future I think that this experience will help me understand how to confidently face problems and find different creative solutions to problems. Thank you for reading!
Harrison, I really like your takeaway from the interview. I wonder if you could add more on how you could use this advice or dive deeper into your thinking on future with this sort of thing.
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