Camp Maskepetoon Final Staff Evaluation

Staff: Melissa Luna Pratt

Position: Counsellor
For each statement below, please indicate where you feel you are performing:
Criteria

Always

Usually

Often

Safe and Child-Centered Behaviours

Ask Yourself: Did I...
Ensure camper safety (weather prepared, x
hydrated, healthy)?
Closely supervise campers?

Role model appropriate attire, language,

and behaviour?

Put needs of the camper first?

x
Child Guidance
Ask Yourself: Did I...

Use a positive and encouraging tone of

voice with campers?

Maintain effective and clear rapport with

campers?

Utilize appropriate and effective forms of

discipline?

Praise campers and celebrate their

successes?

x
Initiative and Leadership
Ask Yourself: Did I...

Take initiative to lead or assist with

songs, games, and activities?
Work effectively with the staff team as
well the volunteers?

x
x

Facilitate appropriate cabin hour

activities?

Take initiative to bring new ideas and

critical thinking to Camp Maskepetoon?

Sometimes

Never

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Criteria
Act as a positive role model and always
leads by example?

Always
x

Assists with all program area when

needed or as seen fit?
Able to consistently arrive and begin
activities on time?

Usually

x
x
Personal Touches
Ask Yourself: Did I...

Build a personal connection with campers x

by showing an interest in their stories and
experiences?
Foster an enthusiastic and engaged
camp spirit?

Provide a meaningful and memorable

camp experience?

Take extra steps to care for those around x

and build community?
Attitudes
Ask Yourself: Did I...
Show respect to all members of the Staff? x
Approach colleagues appropriately to
discuss problems or issues?
Praise volunteers and celebrate their
successes?

x
x

Let volunteers know when their behaviour

was inappropriate?

Make positive, appropriate suggestions to

volunteers about how to improve or
modify their behaviour?

Act in a positive, respectful, professional

manner?

x
Personal Care
Ask Yourself: Did I...

Often

Sometimes

Never

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Criteria

Always

Make good use of downtime and breaks,

especially as a way to manage stress?

Make smart decisions about how to

Usually

Often

Sometimes

spend my time away from camp so that I

returned refreshed?
Do my best to keep healthy during the

week? (Eating, sleeping, and dressing

properly, caring for injuries, taking
medication responsibly?)
Involvement and Participation
Ask Yourself: Did I...
Ensuring that the activity is always camper-centered, take an active and appropriate role during:
Campfire

Free Swim

Afternoon Activity

Wide game

In Staff Meetings

x
Mealtimes
Ask Yourself: Did I...

Make efforts to sit with different campers, x

volunteers and staff each meal?
Actively involve campers in discussion or
table games during meals?

Avoids staff clumping and focus on the

camper?

Program Areas
Ask Yourself: Did I...
Take an active and appropriate role in
programs?

Promote empathy, trust and esteem

building during programs?

Never

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Present program areas with genuine
enthusiasm and excitement?
Did I give clear, concise directions, with
examples, and time for questions?

x
x

Luna,
Thank you so much for all of your contributions to camp this summer. It was truly a
pleasure having you on staff. You place a high value on relationships that is evident in
the way that you interact with campers, volunteers and staff alike; this focus on
relationship building is an asset which will undoubtedly serve you well in the future.
Indeed, one of your greatest strengths was your ability to form cohesive and cooperative
bonds with your junior counsellor. Not only did this ensure that campers had a better
experience, but it also meant that the volunteers benefited from your mentorship and
friendship. I hold you up as the model for what we want our staff/volunteer teams to look
like.
Your skills as a counsellor really grew over the course of the summer. While your
naturally empathetic personality leant itself well to working with diverse children from the
start, you consistently developed in your ability to respond effectively to the many
unexpected situations that daily camp life threw your way. You kept a good handle on
your cabin, and while a few campers tested your patience on occasion, you always
made sure to keep a calm and level head. Thank you for working hard to maintain high
levels of enthusiasm and excitement, even when you were not feeling that well.
I know that as you gained confidence and experience you began stepping up more as a
leader among staff. I think that if you were to return again next summer, you would be an
enormous asset in leading camp wide activities and sharing your positive personality
with all campers. Finding ways to take leadership initiative around camp would be an
area for continued growth.
I sincerely hope that you enjoyed your time at Camp Maskepetoon. I would strongly urge
you to consider returning to camp again next summer; wed be lucky to have you.
All the best on your education journey in Lethbridge.
Flint