Blog 23: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I am proud of the way I presented myself and my information, and I made time.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?
  I would give myself a p because I presented myself well and I hit all of the points I needed to. I followed all of the rubric points and my class was entertained throughout the presentations.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
I would also give myself a p because throughout the year I put in effort into every assignment and it showed in my work.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
   If I could go back in time I would take my time with my presentation and execute my activity in a smoother way. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

The senior project taught me a great deal about being a parent and what to expect from my children. I also realized how hard teachers work to do what they do and that they have to give their all for the job. Presenting for an hour also helped me feel more comfortable in my ability to present and feel confident about the things that I learned.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, Patty A, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents     30     hours  6 min of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
 Below are links to the many articles I used to back up my IC2. The reason I choose these articles is because they all have something to do with the way parenting has evolved over time.



http://www.child-encyclopedia.com/parenting-skills/according-experts/parents-attitudes-and-beliefs-their-impact-childrens-development 

http://www.education.com/reference/article/effect-parenting-styles-children-behavior/ 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201410/how-does-your-parenting-style-affect-your-kids

http://www.metroparent.com/daily/parenting/parenting-issues-tips/25-years-parenting-look-back-ahead/

:http://www.k-state.edu/counseling/topics/relationships/dysfunc.html

(d) Explain what you completed.    


INTERPRETIVE 
Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
The independent component helped give me examples for my eq my eq has to do with cognitive development. The way parents choose to bond with their kids/raise them will greatly influence how they learn in my survey I tested how involved certain parents were and how involved there own parents were when they were kids.

Blog 22: Mentorship

LIA Response to blog:
    Literal
·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog
·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place
     Adrian
     Campus Kids-(909) 986-5400
    Interpretive
     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
   Applied
     The most important thing I have gained from my time at campus kids is the experience itself. Its one thing to read about a fact but to see a child and see with your own eyes how they act and learn is what gives you a good viewpoint.
     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.
    My EQ is How can a parent best give their 3-5 year old a strong cognitive foundation?. The kids I worked with were five so it gave me real life experience into that age group. In a big class there are so many different kids and each kid learns differently. I don't think there is one perfect answer to make the "smartest" kid. I helped them with their homework and I could see how different learning methods helped them

Blog 21: Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?EQ: How can a parent best give their 3-5 year old a strong cognitive foundation?Answer 1: A parent can best help their child exceed cognitively by placing them in a standard preschool on a part time or full time basis.Answer 2: By establishing a healthy emotional attachment with their child a parent can best ensure that they feel secure enough to expand themselves in a way that benefits them cognitively.Best Answer:Answer 3: When a parent sets clear boundaries and reachable goals for their child they will give them the skills and confidence they need to succeed.Reason: This is my best answer because with a goal oriented attitude and safe boundaries kids will feel comfortable exploring and learning. Kids who don't have boundaries have no respect for authority and are less likely to pay attention in class and effect their own learning as well as everyone else.(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?      To arrive at this answer I paid attention to my students and who their parents were. The kids with the semi strict parents who cared how well their kids did are the ones that do best.(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?    The main problem I faced with my project was tunnel vision. The only answers I could see were involved with preschool. After I noticed that I started to look into other things and pay more attention to my mentor ship(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?  My most significant resources were the zero to three website and my mentorship. Mentorship helped me apply what research I found on zero to three.

Blog 18: Fourth Interview Prep

Fourth Interview

1. How can establishing a healthy emotional attachment with a child influence them cognitively.

2. How important is setting boundaries to a child's development?
3. What consequences have you seen come from not setting boundaries?
4. What areas of a child’s life are most negatively influenced by a lack of clear boundaries?
5. How does setting reachable goals for a child improve development?
6. In your experience does attachment between a parental figure and a child have any correlation to how well they do in school?
7. What do you believe could negatively affect that attachment?
8. Is there such a thing as a child being too close to his or her parents?
9. What is the best advice you could give a parent?
10. How can over preparing a child impact them negatively?
11. How important is self confidence for a child to learn the way they need to in the early years?
12. In your opinion what can a parent do to help them develop self confidence?
13. What is one of the main reasons that providing early learning is important?
14. In your professional opinion at what age should parents start to expect a child to have a strong grasp of the alphabet and numbers?
15. If you could change one thing about how the US treats early learning what would it be?
16. How important are the relationships children cultivate in preschool?
17. What impact does teacher student relationships have on a child's learning?
18. In what key ways can full time and part time preschool benefit social development?
19. How important do you believe the teacher parent relationship is?
20. What is the best way teachers and parents can work together to benefit a child's cognitive development.

March Extra Blog: New Answers

After reviewing my questions I realized that they were all different versions of the same thing so I decided to do some extra research and change my answers. After doing the research I have changed by answers to the following.

1. A parent can best help their child exceed cognitively by placing them in a standard preschool on a part time or full time basis.


2. By establishing a healthy emotional attachment with their child a parent can best ensure that they feel secure enough to expand themselves in a way that benefits them cognitively.

3. When a parent sets clear boundaries and reachable goals for their child they will give them the skills and confidence they need to succeed.

Blog 13: Third Answer

• EQ 

How can a parent best give their 3-5 year old a strong cognitive foundation?

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)

         A parent can best help their child by enrolling them in an accredited daycare full time.

• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

         The teacher I interviewed gave me valuable insight into how important being in school           is. Millions of children are in full time daycare every day. Children who are enrolled in 

          a daycare have higher test scores and know how to behave in a class room 

          environment. 

• The research source (s) to support your details and answer

http://nieer.org/resources/research/CognitiveControl.pdf

http://www.babycenter.com/0_the-top-preschool-programs-and-how-they-differ_64635.bc 

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/11/lifelong-benefits-of-preschool/

• Concluding Sentence

         Daycare and preschool have become the saving grace of full time working parents                everywhere. A child will learn a variety of useful skill that will in turn help them              

         develop cognitively.