Senior Project Update

1. I am currently assisting the Historical Society as they continue to try to make the museum more accessible, and I am still a docent.
2.One piece of research that I found important, was one in I forgot where, but it basically provided college qualifications, and what kind of teacher position you would gain from that. It helps me to lead the way of literally, what I'll do next.
3. I don't have any photos at the moment, but one of the other people at the museum has a few, so I'll update with some later.

Blog 5B: Science Fair Proposal

1. Teaching History
2. Children in schools learn less with standard book work, which many schools use in favor of Integrated Project Based Learning.-
 Shonkoff, Jack, Dr. "Quotable Reading Quotes." Reading Rockets. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2012. <http://www.readingrockets.org/books/fun/quotable/>.

3. If a student works in a high noise level environment, then their competence quantity will be less. (Not my final, or even remotely related, but what I could come up with at the time.)
4. I plan on working with my mentor to create two lesson plans, each with the goal of the same knowledge, but one rooted in PBL, while the other will be rooted in standard book work. After teaching the lesson, a test will be given to gauge the amount of knowledge retained from both methods.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

Behavioral/Social Science

Working EQ and Possible answers

1) My working EQ was "What is the best way to ensure students retain knowledge in a class.
2) I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.
3) Checking for Understanding, Guided Practice, and also Independent/Partner work, could all be answers.

Blog 8: Rough Draft of Presentation 1

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-UDimZjGfNER0Fpc1RqbEFrcUU/edit

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

1. I plan to work at a Historical Museum as one of it's Docents (Museum Tour Guides).

2. I work 3 hours every saturday, plus Labor hours, which within two months will supply the 30 hours plus. It also helps me to speak to others about memorized or studied pieces of history, similar to a teacher and how they would teach.

3. Doing the tour guide job will help me to see what interests other people, and also help me better teach to see change what I tell to keep it interesting, or keep them interested.

Second interview Questions

1. What colleges do you reccomend I go to to become a teacher?
2. What got you interested in teaching, or history at that?
3. Which classes do you suggest I take to further my knowledge?
4. Is there anything I can do now to help myself? Another teacher mentioned yearly conferences/seminars.
5. Which do you think helps students retain knowledge better, Project Based or Book Work?

Working EQ

The Pentagon

1. Positive Statement: I have met a lot of people due to me working at schools, museums, and etc. From senior citizens, to teachers, faculty and principals. It has been a great help, and a mass amount of knowledge for me.
2. One piece of research helped me to understand what it takes to qualify to be a teacher, and what is required, and can be achieved from, a masters, bachelors, and doctorate degree in the teaching field.
3. People have been open for me to shadow them. I don't have a permanent mentor yet, due to school going on while, I'm at school, although I do regularly go to do service learning at the museum, so that is something.
4. People have been open, but I am limited to how long I can work there at a time, and how I get there in time without a vehicle of my own and just a few bus transfers to get me there.
5. I would like to study teaching? Is that what that is asking? I would like to gain some connections in the teaching community, and hopefully at a few schools so that I will be better prepared when I return from college. I would like to talk to another history teacher, because, well, that's what I want to be. Different person, different experiences, different knowledge, and different advice. I would also like to help improve student test scores, seeing also that students scores reflect on the teachers, aka the "Hidden Curriculum." Studying how to teach effectively to students would be something I would really enjoy to study.

Problem Statement

1.  Teaching History
2. Children do not absorb the Knowledge as well as they could due to the lesson not jumping off the page. What I could do is create a lesson plan that incorporates activities that keep the students actively learning, and actually absorbing the knowledge, sending the lesson plan to various schools or districts for their own use.
3.  I do not have a second issue, but I do plan to ask my mentor tommorow when I meet up with her.

Interview Preparation

1. I plan to Interview Navaroli, because he is the person who got me into History, and inspired me to become a history teacher myself, to spread around and make history as fun for my students as he did for me, although I should probably get that approved if I can even interview him. If not, I do plan on interviewing Mr. Gauetrau, Joseph Gauetrau's father, who is a history teacher as well, and he teaches at Walnut High School, so it isn't too far.
2.Additional questions I plan to ask are what classes he took to qualify for a teaching position, where he went to take those classes, and what he does to prep a lesson. A lot of questions about college of course, haha.

Topic Choice

A. My topic is Teaching and History, and this is because I love History. U.S History, World History, all I love so much, I thought I'd teach it to the next generation in a way as memorable as I-Poly's history teachers made it for me, to other students in schools that have never had anything like it.
B.

• I-Poly Citizen- I plan to respect the students and mentors I work with. 
• Effective Communicator. I plan to collaborate with my mentors, and keep the students peaceful.
• Effective Learner. I plan to actively seek knowledge and ask questions of my mentor,, learning to work as a better educator.
• Effective User of Technology. I plan to do proper research in both literary, and online resources, to continue advancing my technological skills and using them.

Blog 1: Summer Mentorship

Literal (Know)

• Link- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuUDimZjGfNEdE9NQnVvUElMaE10NzY3d3pMTFE4T3c&pli=1
• Sean Leahy 626 856 1693 Ext 5004

Literal (Need to Know)

• One question, that wasn't really answered yet, due to time constraints, was how he created each lesson plan, and how it became approved by the higher ups. that was just something that stuck in my mind.

Interpretive

• I believe, the most important thing I gained from this experience, was a good look behind the scenes, and even the assisting I did for classwork, just helped me get a better feel for the actual job.

Applied

• I believe that my experience helped me choose Teaching History as a topic, because I feel that it showed me what they really do, the things we students don't see, like the meetings, the test grading, and etc. I did enjoy the assisting of the students though, because it also gave me a better understanding of the topic. Did you know William the Conqueror introduced feudalism to England? Me either.