Sunday, September 30, 2012

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?

Sunday, September 23, 2012

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.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

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.