Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and the objectives for Purther's textbook work for answer 2 post:

EQ:
- What is the best resource a special education team can provide high function autistic children in elementary school to promote academic success?

Answer #2 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*:
- Provide structured programs that will help the students in helping them with consistency.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example):
- Community activities that will help the student experience real life situations that are not usually presented to them.
- An example of a minor program would be a program for brushing teeth. Students take home a step-by-step process for brushing their teeth. Since brushing teeth is a daily routine, this will help them with consistency.
- Reading programs are important for children, especially those with autism. A program with reading will help students with their vocabulary. (Since some autistic children have limited vocabulary, this would count as one of the most important programs)

The research source (s) to support your details and answer:
- ELIJAH School
- CafeMom
- Yadira Rivera

Concluding Sentence:
- Schools that will provide programs to children with needs will help with the child's consistency academically.

*Write your answer like you would write a thesis statement.  Please don't give us one or two words or start your sentence with by.
  

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Content:

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

- I plan to go volunteer/observe what they do at Casa Colina, where there is a department for autistic children. I will also be going to different classes at an elementary school and get more information on how they teach the autistic students and what rubrics/grading/rules/... they use in the classroom.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

- Taking pictures of the work the kids do in class, and also of the activities they do inside/outside.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

- With this I will be able to actually see how lesson plans are made and how tests/quizzes are done. Also, I will be able to see which students are the ones that need the most help in learning.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Content:

• LITERAL
• (a) "I, Kimberly Gallardo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Valeria.DeLaPena@pomona.k12.ca.us (Ms. De La Pena)
• Developing minds (site)
• The Autism Helper (Sasha; blogger)
• ʺIEP/Treatment Plan Objective Ideas" article
• (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of 30 hours). Post it next to your mentorship log.
• (d) Explanation of what you completed
• During the 30 hours I've done a lot of the paper work the teacher would usually do and organizing the paper work. Recently I'm doing more than just that. For example, for Valentines Day each student brought to school a cereal box for their 'Valentine's Mail', and I had to wrap up the boxes in gift wrapping paper that was red, decorated with white polka dots with their name tag on top of the box. Also, I'm helping students with their writing when they need to write a paragraph about someone or something. 

• INTERPRETIVE
• Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work. *Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of 30 hours of work.

Putting up classwork on the walls.

Helping students in their writing.

 

 Checking vocabulary and grammar errors. For example, writing about Martin Luther King Jr. since it was MLK day and writing about his history.

 After they wrote about MLK, they created him by using construction paper and crayons.

 

 

• APPLIED
• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
• It helped me understand that, first of all being a first grade teacher can be stressful on the paperwork, but it really comes a long ways. Also, there are a couple of students in class who don't really know how to write and so I am working on helping the students understand how to write. For example if a student does not know how to spell out a word, let's say "with", and they had originally written "wit" on their paper, then all I could say to them is to sound it out since saying to sound out the word is better than telling them how to spell it, it wouldn't really help  if I had done that. 

Extra Blog Post: January

I am still doing mentorship at Cortez Elementary. I'm helping out a first grade teacher, doing file work and whatever there is to do. Now that I was introduced with the autistic children in pre-k, I'm going to be doing my mentorship a lot more with them. There are only a few highly autistic children that go to the classes; each go different days according to their schedule.

On the month of February I hope to visit Casa Colina where I will be able to work(hopefully) with more kids that have autism.