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. 

February Blog

February I started diving more into depth with my answers. The interview I did with Ms.Diana one of the teachers at my daycare really gave me lots of insight into how good daycare can be for children. The other alternatives are few and far between. In today's society with moms constantly working full time jobs to support their families its hard for anyone to be able to accomplish staying at home and giving a child the attention necessary in order for staying at home to actually be helpful.

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
      How can a parent best give their 3-5 year old a strong cognitive foundation?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
       A parent can best help their child exceed cognitively by placing them in a standard preschool on a part time              basis.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
       By allowing a child to stay home with their primary caregiver or a close relative, a parent is                giving a child strong emotional connections that will later improve overall development                      including cognitive.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Daycare can make children aggressive therefore staying home will prevent this.
• A child that doesn't spend a lot of time in the company of strangers will create a more solid connection with their parents.
• A dedicated parent can teach most things a preschool teacher can.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
       Child Care in America Fact Sheet
       How a mothers love can change a child's brain
6.  What other source supports your answer?
      Peers, Social Skills, & Stress
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought
       So many moms and dads work full time to support their children that not having a child in                  daycare can seem impossible. But having a child stay with family or a parent if possible will                allow them to form closer bonds with those around them.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

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

For my thirty hours I plan to interview parents about their parenting styles and the way they raised their children. My interview will consist of questions about how they were raised and how that affected the choices they made with there own kids.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
 I will keep transcripts from the interviews and compile them together as evidence.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
       This component will allow me to get an up close and personal look at parents and how parenting affects development. The reason I want to do this is because A child's home life directly affects the way they learn in school.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
   “I, Patty Arellano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31  hours and 23 minutes of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

               My mentor Ms. Adrian and the other teachers at my mentor ship helped me the most in guiding my activities                      and giving me advice on how to make them go more smoothly. Also the article Art Influences Learning by                    Anna Reyner gave me valuable back ground that helped me pick my activities

• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

                  Updated Hours Click Here :)

• (d) Explain what you completed.    

                   For my independent component my mentor let me lead the class room once a week by creating activities that  

                  helped the kids learn a concept, idea or practice a skill. So every week I prepared an activity for the class to                        complete.

• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

            My work helped me developed my first answer and create the activity for my first lesson. They also helped me get real life insight to where all the kids are developmentally

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

         This component helped my come up with my first answer. After doing all these activities with them and seeing how much they learned from doing it I realized that preschool did play a key role in helping kids understand fundamental concepts.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
I am most proud of my activity. I feel like people were genuinely discussing it and had an opinion about the different examples that I did.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I would give my self a P because I met all the requirements, I made time, I was prepared and I knew my information
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
  My activity worked really well.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
   I would have included more statistics and experiments that were done by professionals to prove my point
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

 

   Before children can start learning they need to form a strong attachment to someone so my second answer would be "In order for a child to have strong cognitive development they must spend the first two years of their life with a parent or family member."

Blog 12: Mentorship 10 hour check

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
         I am doing my mentorship at Campus Kids Day Care.
2.   Who is your contact?
       My Mentors name is Adrian. 
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)?
       I have done a total of 58 hours and 3 minutes.
4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.
     When I get to my mentorship the kids who are already are in Elementary school get out so I help serve them a snack. After that the kids go outside to burn off energy. While everyone is outside I privately tutor twin girls sam and alex. They struggle a little bit more than the other kids so it gives me a chance to focus on them so they are getting the best help. then I help the kids with homework while Ms.Adrian does craft time with the kids who don't have any.

Blog 11: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
    Over my winter break I focused on my independent component 1. As part of the final product I will turn in I am doing a portfolio that will include all of the activities that I have done with my students throughout these last couple of months.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
One of the most important lessons that I have learned from the work I've done is that finding activities that teach children something as well as give them something fun to do after a long day at school. Since the children in my class are a large age range I have to be very picky about the activities that I do.
3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
  If I had to do a 10 question interview I would interview the director of the the day care where I do my hours. The reason is that she has been working in the field so long that she has valuable experiences and a different perspective than most of the teachers I work with. She was a day care teacher before she became a director so she can give many different perspectives.