Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours check

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

- Cortez Magnet

2.   Who is your contact?

- Ms. De La Pena

3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?  


-  44 hrs and 50 min.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

- Setting up the classroom and doing file work. Also working with the students, helping them in reading and math. Doing a lot of workshops such as art workshops.

5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it. 

Senior Project, The Holiday

Content:

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you over the break with your senior project?

 - Since I do my hours working on Senior Project at a school I couldn't really do anything since they were also on break. But I did do some more research on my topic that way  I wouldn't get too behind. I also went to go visited Los Angeles twice over break to see their medical facilities; since LA has such a large population of people. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

- From visiting LA I know that there are an increasing amount of autistic children. Where I live I would probably see about one autistic child every week if I were to go out more frequently on a daily basis. But over in LA, in one day I've had seen about five; autistic children aren't easily seen going out during the day.

3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

- A psychologist that specializes in treating and helping autistic children. They would be the most helpful because they are the ones who really get to work with the children and are specially trained to help them.  

Extra Blog Post: November

11/28/2013

My favorite part of mentorship this month was helping the kids make turkeys out of colored construction paper. I prepared all of the materials for the students and handed them in to the teacher. The students also had to make Pilgrims or Native Americans; one half of the class did one character and the other half did the second. After Thanksgiving Break we will be putting them up on the classroom wall. Thanksgiving cards were also made by the students for their parents/family. Christmas will also be somewhat similar to this.

EQ

Content:

1. I reviewed the Rule of Three for writing an EQ.
Essential Question
Once a topic is chosen, the student will develop a working essential question.  The purpose of the working essential question is to help the student build a strong foundation of research which will allow him or her to create an essential question that encourages depth and rigor in the chosen topic. An essential question must:

• Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, Is not a yes/no question)
• Takes a stance (Allows you to argue some point, Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
•  Format (It is specific, The wording makes sense)

2.  Review the following EQs and

• Tell us if it meets the rule of 3 criteria.
• Tell why it does or why it doesn't

 a.  What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?

- Yes; you can argue of many different ways of losing weight in healthy ways, it is also very specific and it is evident that research is required in order to find out different answers to the EQ.

 b.  What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?

-  Yes; you can come up with various answers for this EQ and it is also to the  point and specific.This is something that can be researched.

 c.  What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?

- Yes; also to the point/wording makes sense, it relates to everyone for the most part.

 d.  How can an Anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?

- No; not very understandable 

3.  Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.

- What is most important to helping an autistic child in life's everyday challenges?  

Extra Blog Post (October)

When I went to go get my interview done with Ms. Alvarez, I took a closer look at her teaching methods and compared them to Ms. De La Pena's. Ms. De La Pena's class is more group based while Ms. Alvarez has more of an independent feel.

I also noticed how some teachers may lose their temper at some point. It is evident that elementary school teachers tend to lose their temper more compared to high school teachers and college professors. So when I went to elementary I remember a lot of yelling and mad teachers telling a student what to do or what they did wrong. At Cal Poly I've only seen a professor lose their temper twice due to the lack of students coming in way too late for class. During my years at iPoly since freshmen year till now, I've seen a teacher lose their temper about six times (with different teachers).

Therefore, studying these behaviors I've now come to a conclusion that teaching takes a whole lot of patience. 

My topic has changed a bit though so I won't be looking into teaching any longer. My focus will be either on Autism or Dyslexia. 

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

Content:

1. What is your working EQ?

 - What does a school psychologist do in order to help a student advance in schoolwork?

2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.

- Having a general idea of what the subjects are in the students grade level in order to get a better feeling on how to help with their schoolwork.

3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

- In the book Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons it talks about how students tend to have different levels of knowledge; making sure to touch base on how to understand each subject.

4. Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you're doing relate to your working EQ?  

- Volunteering at Cortez Magnet for the moment. Working face-to-face with the kids.

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.