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Link Internship
In order to graudate from Animas High School it's required that all students complete a LINK Internship. We are given three weeks in May our Junior year to complete 90 hours of an internship of our choice. The goal is to work alongside our mentors in a job we are interested in while learning the ropes of a real workplace. To learn more go to ahsinternships.weebly.com.
My Internship
My internship was at Rivendell Early Education Center, a daycare for infants up to 3 1/2 year olds. I choose this because I love working with kids and want to be a teacher so I wanted to see what age group worked best for me.
For more information about Rivendell go to their website, rivendelleec.homestead.com/Contact_Us.html
Blog Posts
February 2021
My mentor and I sat down and discussed how many hours I completed and agreed that I most likely had 60 hours done. While we were talking about this I expressed the idea of working there and she said she had been thinking of asking that as well. I completed an interview and am now working at Rivendell as a teacher part-time!
January 28th, 2021
After almost 3 months I got to return to my internship today! It was the first time I've ever changed a diaper which was...weird to say the least.
October 2020
There have been some COVID cases at Animas so the internship will be postponed for about 3 weeks until it is safe for me to return.
September 2020
The internship is going awesome! I get to work with toddlers and infants and it's super easy but also something I'm really passionate about!
September 2020
I'm rethinking my passions and have actually been leaning more towards early-age education. I reached out to the owner of Rivendell, an early education center in Durango, and beginning my internship this month!
May 2020
The internship I had planned has been canceled in order for things to remain safe.
March 2020
COVID recently hit the states and put my internship at risk.
October 10th, 2019
Currently, I'm really excited about the opportunity to test out potential future jobs. My head has been through hundreds of ideas already that I have always wanted to try out. Right now I am thinking about working with a school counselor at a variety of different elementary schools. I really love working with kids, and my biggest passion is developmental psychology.
November 4th, 2019
I got an interview for my internship today! It's with Lesley from Riverview Elementary School!
Reflection
April 23rd, 2021
I really enjoyed my internship, the work community was very nice to work around, and didn't get annoyed with my thousands of questions. If I become a teacher, I will want to focus on a higher age group, preferably one that doesn't have nap time. Working with babies and toddlers is fun but I actually want to have them sit down and learn as a class rather than teaching each kid individual things when I can. However, my mentor liked me so much that I now have a full-time teaching position in the toddler room.
My Project
For my project I helped refine the business Facebook page by showing my mentor how to pin posts that have important information for parents.