Mountain View Youth Development Center

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Development Center

Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Experiences Teaching Physical Education at a Youth Development Center

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Cory E. Dixon ◽  
Jared A. Russell ◽  
Peter A. Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Graduate Teaching Assistants ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development Center

Purpose: This study examined the pedagogical experiences of former graduate teaching assistants following their teaching experiences at a youth development center. Method: A case study approach was utilized to investigate each participant case while a phenomenological approach was employed to analyze each case. The participants, Malik, Dante, and Ray, previously taught physical education at a youth development center as graduate teaching assistants. Results: The results of this study are presented as three cases centered on the participants and their experiences. The first case, “developing people from where they are, not where you want them to be . . .” (Malik) highlights the participants’ appreciation of their students’ culture and context. The second case, “resiliency to teach well regardless of circumstance or situation . . .” (Dante) features the participants’ ability to teach diverse learners. The third case, “uphill battles . . . you cannot learn this in a textbook . . .” (Ray) features the challenges faced while teaching at the youth development center. Discussion: Consistencies across participants’ experiences, the impact on their current careers, and implications for introducing culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies via nontraditional settings are discussed.

The impact of the implementation of small projects on the empowerment of workers in non-governmental organizations, a field study in the Center for the Development of Youth Activities in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Amjad Mohammed Abdulla
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Youth Activities ◽  
Basic Vocabulary ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development Center

This study aims to find the impact of implementation of small projects to enable workers in the organizations and to identify the quality of the most influential enterprises in enabling workers,and Verification the correlation between the implementation of small projects and the dimensions of empowerment in practice based on statistical analyzes of minute, research has adopted the adopt a model hypothesis and processed through the theoretical framework addresses the basic vocabulary about small businesses and enabling administrative, and operational framework that includes the adoption of a problem that suggests it does the implementation of small projects to increase the ability of workers, and the premise is the existence of the impact of the implementation of small projects in the empowerment of employees, has Researcher adopted in data processing on a set of indicators and statistical tests to describe the search variables and test the hypothesis, based on the style of the questionnaire to the size of the sample of 92 individuals from working in youth development activities of the center, and finally reach search to a set of conclusions and foremost, workers development Center active young people contribute to the development of plans and objectives of the organization, and that the workers are working with some of the team up to face the challenges and problems they face, and they do not want that exerted on them severe censorship and directly from the top so that limit their creativity, and that the implementation of the small projects positive relationship with possession workers of the information, since the field work is a source to acquire practical information for workers, and that the small projects that help people to develop their expertise in the field of work teams, and make them to fend for themselves and take the initiative in implementing duties

scholarly journals BANJARMASIN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ajeng Larasati ◽  
Gusti Novi Sarbini
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Homeless Children ◽  
City Center ◽  
Flexible Architecture ◽  
Development Center ◽  
The City ◽  
Space Restriction ◽  
Sense Of Home ◽  
The Ideal

Homeless children are unique and creative individuals. Most of the time these homeless children are based in the city center, however, they are often marginalized from the limelight. The homeless children need to be given the opportunity and the choice to improve their potential. The street corners of Banjarmasin are not the ideal home for these children. The Youth Development Center is the place to develop the potential of homeless children through creative fields with a sense of home in the design. It will be the hub for these children to express themselves through their creations and receive the opportunity to learn more without the space restriction. The Youth Development Center can also be a place for society to appreciate the homeless children’s potential. The design strategy uses the Third Place method as a space for interaction and solution of problems using the concept of Flexible Architecture so that space is defined not only by its function but by the potential of the space itself.

Senior Physical Education Teacher Education Majors’ Reflections on Teaching at a Youth Development Center

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Cory E. Dixon ◽  
Peter A. Hastie ◽  
Jared A. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Physical Education Teacher ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education ◽  
Development Center

Purpose: Acknowledging the growing ethnic and cultural gap in diverse teacher and student populations, this study examined the pedagogical experiences of undergraduate physical education teacher education seniors following a teaching experience at a youth development center. Method: A phenomenological case study approach was employed in which preservice teachers taught and participated in over 45 secondary physical education lessons. The primary data sources were reflective journals and semistructured interviews. Results: Two major themes were constructed that describe the journeys of the physical education teacher education seniors teaching at both the youth development center field experience and in their internship placements the following semester. Initially, the preservice teachers experienced nervousness, uncertainty, and concern but, across time, experienced a degree of change and growth that saw them becoming particularly aware of and appreciating the personal biographies of their students. Discussion: The extent to which the physical education teacher education seniors’ experiences at the youth development center were transferred into their internships is discussed in addition to implications for introducing culturally relevant pedagogies in nontraditional settings.

Identity Exploration and Commitment of Albanian Youth as a Function of Social Opportunity Structure

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 268-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aida Orgocka ◽  
Jasna Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
School Students ◽  
Identity Exploration

This study examined how social opportunity structure influences identity exploration and commitment of Albanian high school students. A total of 258 students completed a questionnaire that gauged their identity exploration and commitment in three domains: education, occupation, and family. ANOVA results indicated that, overall, students scored highest in exploration in the domain of education and in commitment in the domain of family. Students' exploration and commitment were linked to gender. Albanian female students scored higher than male students in exploration and commitment regarding education and family. Perceived work opportunities in Albania or abroad also significantly moderated participants' exploration in the domain of education and were associated with commitment in education and occupation. As one of the first studies to explore Albanian youth's identity development in relation to social opportunity structure, findings are discussed in light of furthering the field of Albanian adolescent and youth development.

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