Final Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? I am most proud of my activity, because it emphasized my third answer. It also showed if the students were paying attention to the content I was telling them and if they learned anything. Most did, but there were some slackers. 


(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?  P

   
b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? P
    

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

I think my mentorship was what worked most in my senior project. I spent a lot of time there and my mentor taught me a lot about my topic

(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?

I would probably change my topic earlier than I could've. If I had known where I was gonna be mid December to early January I would've changed my topic during September or earlier

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?  I learned a lot about the teaching field and how tough it is and can be. I never thought of going into teaching as a career, but all the information I have learned throughout changed my perspective on teaching from an easy job with lots of vacation time to a tough job that has lots of deadlines and new lessons that have to be made every week or two.

Blog 22: Mentorship

    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

Rosemarie Aguirre ((626)253-9664) and Griffith Middle School

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

Probably has to be the progression throughout the year. In the start of the start of the mentorship, the students didn't know me well and I didn't know them that well either. Throughout the year my relationship has grown immensely and now I have loads of fun and help them out a lot.

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

This experience has given me the first hand experience on how and what you have to do to teach 6th grades special education. The process of learning through doing takes a big role in this subject, because I'm literally teaching 6th grade special education students lessons.

Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is the best way to teach 6th grade special needs students, Integrating the Common Core standards into each students IEP, Using Visuals and Mnemonics, and Lesson Differentiation. What is your best answer and why? Lesson Differentiation, because my other two answers are forms of Lesson Differentiation.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

It was the last answer I came up with so me and my mentor came up with it last. My first answer was too vague so I had to change it to better suit my topic and I did.

(3) What problems did you face? I had to change my third answer, that was a small issue, but a quick change resolved it. My first answer was patience and understanding, very VERY vague, but I didn't see it as vague before I wrote it in my essay template.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why? The book that I keep referencing, Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers has been an important one. It gives a lot of info about my topic and has helped me through the year. My other source is my mentor. She helped me come up with my third answer and guided me through my first two answers. Her name is Rosemarie Aguirre and she has taught 6th grade special education for about 7 years now.

End of Month Blog: April

This month was a very productive month. I did my Independent Component and finished most of my mentorship hours this month. That's really about it, nothing special