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.