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.

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. 

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

Content:

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

• Collaborate more in the classroom. (grading, reading to the students, organize lessons, etc.)

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

• Pictures that show me working in the classroom. 

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

• I will be able to get more experience in the classroom.

4. Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your mentorship log and call it the independent component 1 log.