End of month blog: February

This month I went to mentorship almost everyday to get them done. This month was pretty fun because of all the after school events at my mentorship. There was a movie night, a play by the students, and a band performance. I was probably at mentorship for 40 hours this month.

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
What is the best way to teach 6th grade special education

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Integrate the 6th grade common core standards into each students’ IEP

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Using Pneumonics and Visuals into their everyday lessons

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. It helps the kids get focused more easily
2. It adds another dimension of learning
3. It creates a mechanism for the kids to rely upon

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers.

6.  What other source supports your answer?
My mentor and the students

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
What other things can I do to teach these kids89

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
Prep and give a lesson to my students

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
I will observe my mentor teaching her class,  make a lesson, then teach a lesson to the kids

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
This will give me more insight on how to teach special needs students by actually teaching them.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Joshua Aguirre-Dahdouh, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Rose Aguirre, 15 years experience of teaching.
• (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.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• I completed what I said I would do.
• I taught the students about Ancient Israel. I read the chapter all about Israel to them and re-read it for those who needed it. 
• Made a Newsletter with my mentor and helped her modify it for 2 different weeks
• 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.  
• These pictures are the ones I used for my lesson 2 presentation, but I forgot to explain them :/
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   I took this Groupie after I finished reading to them. It was almost at the end of the day.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• The foundation of my topic relies on what is the best way to teach special needs students. By observing my experienced mentor and actually trying it myself, I got a feel on how it's done and what I'm supposed to do.