Three Column Chart First Draft

Name: Jacob Ruiz                                                 House: West                                            Topic: Teaching History

Three Column Logic Chart

Essential Question: What is the best way to help basic/below basic Middle School students retain knowledge in a history class.

Best Answer: The Incorporation of Engaging activities into lesson plans.

Statements		Reasons		Verification
1)      EQ What is the best way to help basic/ below basic Middle School students retain knowledge in a history class.		1)Given		1)
2)      A lack of activities does not keep them engaged.		2)Other than the lesson, there is nothing to keep their attention.		2) Buck Institute of Education (BIE)
3)      Students need activities or else their engagement will decrease.		3)Students attention spans (average), have decreased a few seconds in the last ten years.		3) Common Sense Media ( An actual organization)
4)      Answer 1: Incorporate engaging activities into lesson plans.		4)Over the years, students have had a harder time paying attention, so this and visual learning to help them retain knowledge.		4)Common Sense Media, BIE
5)      Students can be more productive with other students.		5)Students can run ideas off each other and come up with better solutions to problems.		5)BIE
6)      You can have simple individual work, but it can only compliment Collaborative work.		6)Too much of one or the other can hinder progress, and thus must be in unison.		6)BIE
7)      Answer 2: A balance of Collaborative and Individual work.		7)You simply can’t have just one or the other, without hindering their full potential academically.		7) BIE
8)      Students don’t always understand everything they’re taught.	8)Not all knowledge takes one path, it may need to be explained or learned another way.				8)BIE
9)      Answer 3: Checking for understanding in the classroom.	9)Just ensuring they’re learning what is needed will keep them on the path to retaining knowledge.				9)BIE
10)   The best way to help a basic/below basic middle school student retain knowledge in a history class to incorporate engaging activities into the lesson plan.					IF: Engaging activities, balance of collaborative and individual work, and checking for understanding are ways to retain knowledge in a MS history class. THEN: The best way for a basic/below basic middle school student to retain knowledge is to incorporate engaging activities into the lesson plan to accommodate their short attention spans.

Senior Project and ESLRs

1. I have excelled in being an effective I Poly Citizen.
2. I believe I have excelled in this ESLR for the reason that, since I work at a museum, hand in hand with the fact I work with a History teacher, I would be caught up on current events and world history. Which I am, through research and lessons.
3. I don't know what really to provide as evidence, since I'm usually working and cannot take photos, so I just thought this photo of me with Ben Franklin at the fair would work. Well, here you go.

2 Hour Meeting Answer 3

1.  What is your essential question?
1. What is the best way to help a basic/ below basic students retain knowledge in a middle school history class?2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?
2.My third answer for my EQ is Checking for Understanding.
3.  What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?
3.-You need to ensure students are learning what they need to.
   - Checking for understanding helps to see what level the students are on, and thus better teach them.
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4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
4. The Buck Institute of Education, and my Mentor EJ Gauetrau.
5.  What do you plan to study next and why? 
5. I Plan to next study creative methods to incorporate Collaborative work?

Engaging Activities, Integration of Collaborative Work.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to help basic/below basic students retain knowledge in a middle school history class?
2. What are some of the biggest obstacles for helping below basic students learn in a class?
3. Is there a major difference in those obstacles between Below basic, and basic students?
4. What are some possible reasons why these students are below basic?
5. What are some possible reasons why these students may not retain knowledge in a class?
6.when teaching a class, what obstacles do the students themselves provide?
7. What is usually your next course of action if a student just isnt learning?
8. Do you usually seek the below basic out to help them, or do they seek you out?
9. What is the hardest thing for you to do, that helps the students?
10. How do you think teaching other subjects to below basic students differ?
11. Do you believe History is one of the easier, or harder subjects for below basic students to learn In?
12. Do you also think time is a factor? Depending on what time of the day you have each class, such as after lunch, or first thing in the morning.
13. Why do you think Group work helps below basic students learn more than basic students?
14.  If you could change anything in your class that you can't change now to help your students, what would you?
15. During a time of tragedy for a student, how do you deal with them if their grades falter, or how would you?
16. Could incentives such as candy or rewards possiblly help?
17. Does following up with students help in any way?
18. What methods do students themselves take to help themselves retain knowledge?
19. Other than that, are there any other methods you advise them to take?
20. What do you think the least effective way is to help below basic/ basic students retain knowledge in a history class?

5B

If a basic below basic student does project based work in favor of independent book work, they will retain more knowledge.

Blog 16 2 Hour Meeting Answer # 2

1.  What is the Best way to help a Basic/Below Basic Middle School student retain knowledge in a history class?

2.  My Second answer for my EQ is a balance of group and individual work.

3.  1- A constant flow of Individual work will lose the students attention, and although they will focus, they will not seek peer consultation on questions. Thus cutting off possible, if maybe correct answers. Only having one mind to work with.

2- Group work, although it works almost all the time, is never guaranteed to work. Variables are always introduced that could create un stability, such as the combination of group members, or the topic. Two students may not do work, and thus wont learn what they're supposed to, and their weight will be pulled by someone else. 

3- A Combination of the two forms of work ensure that each person pull something from at least one of the two activities, stimulating their own brain in self thought, and creativeness in group work.

4.  Just.. observing... and yeah, a few psychology articles.

5.  I plan to continue to study my answer 2 by pursuing Child Psychology literature? Child Development books? I don't know.

Independent Component/ A cool thing happened at the museum

Last Saturday, the Museum received a pretty interesting box donation, as well as a visit from a friend of the museum who we always enjoy seeing.

First, Former Mayor of West Covina Mike Miller came in at the start of the day, and began identifying photos he had donated a few weeks ago, naming people who we had no idea who they were, in an album that had photos from when he worked on the Little Rascals (1999), and The Flintstones (2000), Rose Parade Floats.



















After he had left, we had a woman who just so happened to make the first donation in 1999, to the museum, come in and make a donation. She was a former member of the Southern California Historical Society, and Donated a Map of California, dated 1854, two reports on a politician, and three books about the history of southern California, and one about the History of the Historical Society of Southern California.

Me Cataloging The Donations