Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Blog 14: Third Interview Preparation

What is the most effective way for a kindergarten teacher to prepare his students for our quickly changing world?




1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
I plan to interview my mentor again, Karen Lopez. She has been teaching over 25 years.
2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 
I will be interviewing her Tuesday, January 19th at 3 PM.
3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.
What strategies can I use to find the research for my topic? What sources do you get information from?
4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).
What do you consider the best method of teaching? Can you tell me a little about how you've noticed education change in the past 20-25 years? What technology has been most useful to you?
5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 
What do you think about innovations in education? Is it better or worse?
Do you think technology makes it harder to teach students or easier? If so why?What type of programs are used at this school? Is it well funded or did someone have to look for an alternative and find a cheap program. Since a lot of the money goes towards the free and reduced lunch program?

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In


1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?
I am doing my mentorship at Arroyo Elementry School
2.   Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

Ms.Lopez is my contact and she is an expert because she has been teaching for around 25 years.
3.   How many  hours have you done during the school year? (Summer Mentorship Hours and Mentorship Hours should be reflected separately in your Senior Project Hours log located on the right-hand side of your blog).

During the summer, I did 15 summer mentorship hours and  throughout the year I did 25 Mentorship Hours. 
4.   Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

Well for the most part, I usually cleaned, reorganize materials. But I also helped with her lesson plans and made packets for the kids. Some days I get to learn more than others a lot of  my topic. She's let me use materials from her classroom to use for my lesson plan and I think we a have a good connection. To complete my remaining hours I will be coming in like usual but I talked ot her about giving me things to do at home. So I'm also going to be doing tat towards my mentorship.

Monday, January 4, 2016

Blog 12: 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?
  • I did not do anything regarding my senior project.
2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
  • I learned to check the blog more and that I should've probably did stuff regarding my senior project.
3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
  • I might talk to my mentor again since we had a really good interview the first time and she knows her stuff.
  • But I'm most likely going to talk to one of the other teachers on campus who is also a kindergarten teacher (one of my mentors teacher friend).