Co-op Work Term Report

1. Introduction
My four-month position was as a Summer Camp Leader. In the most general yet most critical terms, my primary responsibility was to ensure the safety and well-being of the children under our care. One way in which this duty of care was executed was, for example, by understanding and adhering to the camp’s polices on behavior guidance, supervision, safety, and emergency management. On a daily basis, this required working with other camp leaders and coordinators, keeping careful records of activities and incidents, carrying essential equipment, conducting safety checks of equipment, keeping direct lines of sight to assigned children, supervising all activities, etc. Now, while these are some of the highlights of the position’s explicit duty-set, as with any job there were less visible but equally important responsibilities, such as coordinating auxiliary tasks with colleagues and meeting with parents when incidents occurred and problems arose. Overall, I would say that my role was to ensure that the children under my care had the most fulfilling and safe summer camp experience possible.

Reflection and analysis

2. Description
In an attempt to organize a potentially dense, multi-threaded reflection and analysis, the discussion that follows is organized along three dimensions: my interactions with the children in my care; my interactions with colleagues; and, my internal discourses, evaluations, emotions, etc. Admittedly, this person-centered schema runs the risk of overlooking elements of my work term worthy of consideration and discussion; for example, a schema centered on the categories of people with whom I interacted—including my internal interlocutor—may overlook reflecting upon and analyzing how organizational and/or positional parameters contributed to my experience. So, where necessary, this discussion will branch out to capture aspects of my work term that may not strictly fall under my chosen schema but yet represent important facts, events, and times of the last few months. Additionally, the reflection and analysis presented here will proceed against the backdrop provided by my initial statement of learning objectives and by my midterm progress evaluation. As will become clear, reference to those two preceding documents is crucial because their—often implicit—assumptions and premises shaped my work experiences and my perceptions of them, and, thus, in turn shape this reflection and analysis.

In this descriptive section, I first lay out the three aspects of my work experience that are reflected upon and analyzed in later sections, in line with the dimensions delineated above. First, my interaction with the children in my care: I described a particular case in some detail in my midterm evaluation, but the specifics bear repeating, primarily because the time and

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