Blog 22: Mentorship

LITERAL

(a) Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

Updated on the right hand side.

(b) Contact Name and Mentorship Place

Chami Jayasinghe from the Montessori Academy of Chino.


INTERPRETIVE

(a) What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
On a personal standpoint from my time at the Montessori Academy of Chino, I definitely grew a lot. I developed more self-confidence in myself, because when you are around children for long periods of time, in their eyes you can do no wrong and that was a real ego boost and I learned how to just be myself, and to me that was on of the most important things I gained.
On an academic level I learned how to determine my priorities and manage my time accordingly; I had to set a schedule for myself and be reliable because my mentor would expect me to come a certain day to help her out.

APPLIED

(a) How has what you've done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
Going to my mentorship and helping out helped me answer my EQ because I got to see both sides of my essential question at the same time. My essential question talks about how something a child develops in preschool helps a child in kindergarten. To most this seems very tedious and difficult but since I volunteered at a Montessori school, where the grade levels are mixed, I was able to see exactly how preschool children were learning and how kindergartners who have already learned the material, applied it to their work.
Another benefit to having volunteered at my mentorship was that they were a very hands on, let the children explore, type of school so in the case of my essential question where I was wondering what skill was most useful to a child I got to see what they used more and how it affected them.