August Blog: Getting to know my students

    My entire mentornship revolves around spending time with all the students from age 5-11. When I first started at the daycare I had to decide if I wanted to work with two year olds or the 5-11. I made the choice to work with the 5-11 age group because I was told by one of the teachers at the daycare that I would find for research on that group of kids. I love being with my students an helping them get a better understanding of the things that they are learning at school. Sometimes its hard because the kids argue among themselves and sometimes we have to separate them. But for the most part they are sweet and the more time I spend there the more I learn about each student as an individual. I think its important to try and get to know all the students to the best of my ability because it makes the class more fun. The kids know that their teachers care and as teachers it makes you feel special when you walk into the room and your students are absolutely ecstatic to see you.

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?
        I plan on interviewing my mentor Adrian. I want to interview her because I know that she has extensive experience in her field and she will help me guide my project.

2. You have to ask five questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?
        I want to ask her questions that will help guide my essential question. I know what I want to base my project on but I still need help focusing on my essential questions. I also want to ask her what type of authors I should avoid and who to look for when conducting my research.


1. If I were to be interested in studying child development, what could you tell me about it?

2. From your perspective, what could I study that would be significant?

3. How does being in daycare after school affect children versus going home?

4. Who else would you recommend I talk to?

5. What kinds of activities do you recommend I do for the mentor ship component?

6. What articles/books do you recommend I read to give me a better understanding of how day care affects children?

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. List your topic.

  

            How preschool affects future learning

2. Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.

           How will preschool affect a child once he or she is in grade school??

Blog 2: Summer Menorship

1.  Using Google doc  link a log of specific hours and a description of your duties (click here for an example) to your blog post. 
Summer Mentorship Log

2. What is the contact name & number of where you volunteered? 
Campus Kids Day Care
Mentor: Miss Adriane
Mentor Contact Info: (909) 986-5400

3. What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them. 
1. How will being in day care after school instead of going home affect learning?
2. How does putting a child in day care early affect them emotionally/mentally?
3. Do the topics learned in preschool really stay with them throughout kindergarten and first grade?


4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?                         Spending time with my students really allowed me to get into the topic I am learning. It gave me valuable insight to the day to day operations going on in a day care. Because I was allowed hands on experience I go to spend one one one time with each child to really see how they learn. Watching them learn and slowly grasp concepts was very rewarding Being with my students this summer strengthened my resolve to chose early childhood education for my senior project.

5. What is your senior project topic going to be? How did what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.
My senior project will focus mainly on early childhood education. I worked at Campus Kids day care throughout the summer. My mentor Adriane let me help her in all the day to day aspects of running a classroom. The students that we taught were between 5-7. The kids come to us after school for homework help and to be there until there parents get off of work. Apart from homework they do crafts and help strengthen concepts.