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After reading Mapping Interconnected Care three forms of how teachers can care stuck out to me. The first being when the teacher provided snacks for her students. The teacher went out of her way to buy snacks for the class. The teacher did this thinking it would help her students stay awake during class. (That would work for me, I love snacks). She thought about it more and thought sometimes students just need a snack.  Second is having a clean learning space for the students. This tells the students they deserve a clean area to learn. The third one sort of confused me but the teacher connects her sexual identity to the way she teaches. By the teacher doing this it allows other students to connect with her and to talk about their sexual identity.  

I have not started my internship yet but over the summer I worked at a sports camp with youth ages 6 to 13. One way care was expressed was the youth had some say in what activity we were going to play and if they did not want to play they could sit on the bench and usually a worker would sit with them and talk with them and try to convince them to play (usually that was me because I do not do sports). Most of the time if I said I’ll play if you play and that works. I did not work at this camp for very long therefore but one thing that the program did well was having enough workers to the number of youth. 

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  1. UnknownOctober 4, 2017 at 7:56 PM

    Being there for emotional support is very important and you talking them on the bench means a lot to a child. I hope you bring these skills to your future internship. Next time get in and play, nothing wrong with giving it a try you may even enjoy it. Some sports I am horrible at but it gives that one child who doesn't want to play a chance to laugh at me.

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