Extra Blog Post: April

                     The behavior chart, each student has one clip and start at "Ready to Learn"                                                   

When a student has been on green or above on the behavior chart for a whole week, they get a bouncy ball from the gumball machine.

Once a student has completed and passed their color coded words, they fill in their gumball machine (ei. Peach words have a list of words and green words have another set of words). At they end if they finish all of their words, the students who passed get a pizza party.

                                                      Rare words for the students to learn.

                                                        Filing their English/History work.

Blog 20: Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question and answers? What is your best answer and why?
- What is the best resource a special ed team can provide highly autistic students in elementary school in order to promote academic success?
- My three answers: Having effective IEP Goals, developing consistency, and parent involvement
- Best answer: Helping the student in developing their consistency
- Why is this my best answer?:  Usually kids deal with a lot of consistency in the first place and it is very much incorporated in daily life and in school.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
- With some of my recent research I saw some videos (ELIJA &CafeMom) that showed ways a student learned and they all showed ways of being consistent.

(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
- Problems like not being able to meet with one of my mentors due to the different schedules. Also, since I am going to mentorship at a school it's a bit harder for me to stay longer at mentorship because I also go to school.
- Resolve? During Spring Break I had the chance to meet with the mentor I had trouble seeing. I met with the her at least twice the whole day and got to observe the classroom and it's functions.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
- Mentorship; Yadira Rivera, since I feel like she has more knowledge about it (with 19+ years of experience). Also articles written by Michelle Garcia Winner that talked a lot about improving in speech.

Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response.  It is also significant to cite sources as you explain..

Independent Component 2: Blog 19

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
- Yadira Rivera, who works at Cortez Magnet who works as a special education teacher for kindergarten.
- Valeria De La Pena, who also works at Cortez Magnet as a first grade teacher.
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours). Post it next to your mentorship log.
(d) Explanation of what you completed. 
- I've completed 30+ hours of helping in a first grade classroom, mostly working with the students and helping the teacher events held inside the classroom. I also sat and observed in the special education classroom over Spring Break so that would be able to stay through the whole day.

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 the 30 hours of work.

During Cesar Chavez Week

Easter

APPLIED:
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.
I was able to visit Ms. Rivera's classroom several times even though the schedule was a bit tough. When going to observe in her classroom I had a better understanding of how things worked inside and outside of the classroom. I now have a better connection with Ms. De La Pena as a result from all the times I've been to her classroom and learned more about her teaching style.