1. What is your EQ?
What is the most important skill a child develops in preschool that helps them best excel
academically in kindergarten?
2. What is your third answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
Another important skill a child develops in preschool that is a predictor of success in school are
emotional skills. While it may not be something that is often talked about I believe that now in the
new age that we are in children are already influenced by those around them, so it is only logical
that children learn to control their emotions at an early age.
3. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
o It helps a child's ability to control their outbursts
- I've noticed at my mentorship that the kids who struggle with their emotions, for example
keeping their anger in check when someone has taken something from them affects the way
they complete their school work because they are so focused on that emotion they don't focus
or pay attention to anything else.
o Good emotional skills help children become more emotionally sophisticated and confident
-"My 10-year-old son recently shared a secret with me. He had used some of his allowance to
buy Pokemon trading cards, which he called "way, way expensive." He didn't even like the
cards, he admitted to me. But trading them was a way for him to build and keep some
friendships in school with his classmates who collected the cards. His willingness to use his
growing social sophistication and empathy to work on friendships shows how important
emotional skills are for children in elementary school."-Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D.
o Increases social competence
- As I mentioned previously a child's ability to be able to control their emotions affects the way
they interact with those around them. If a child is happy they are more likely to share their
ideas, thoughts, or feelings with people opposed to a child who may be more sheltered
will have a harder time expressing themselves which may affect their ability to communicate
and perform in school.
4. What printed source supports your answer?
Foxman, Paul. "Chapter 1/What Is Anxiety?" The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children
and Helping Them Heal. Alameda, CA: Hunter House, 2004. 8-21. Print.
o This book/chapter got me thinking about how emotions play a role in how a child takes in their
environment and how they show their feelings. It talks about anxiety, what it is and how it
affects children emotionally, mentally, and academically.
5. Tie this together with a concluding thought.
Every child is unique. Some children are cheerful and adaptable while others are moody and easily
distressed. Emotion and behavior are based on the child’s temperament and developmental stage.
Which is why they must develop good emotional skills early on to carry into the future.
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Blog 11: Holiday Project Update
1. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school. What did you do over the break with your senior project?
As I previously mentioned in my December blog post, I mentor at a daycare/school and they were also on break, so I didn't get the opportunity to spend time with the kids. However, my mentor, Ms. Chami and I were talking about coming up with activities to present to the children. So, I scoured the internet, and Pinterest, to find stuff that both benefits the kids and lets them have fun and then I will show what I found to my mentor and we will see what we are going to do with them.
2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why? What was the source of what you learned?
Well my essential question is, "what is the most important skill a child develops in preschool that helps them best excel academically in kindergarten?", so began to think about how a child, or person in general, gains a new skill. I believe we learn something new either by seeing and/or doing. In my opinion, and from what I've seen at my mentorship, a child best learns when they are interacting with something new. So when I was looking up different activities I came across this link which explains what an activity in a Montessori learning curriculum is.
Another thing I learned from my mini activity research, is another solid piece to help me come up with an answer to my EQ, which is that fine motor skills are the most important. I found that information on this link; it also has various activities for a child to do. I read that many children have weak fine motor skills and in effort to improve upon those skills a teacher talks about different things you could teach the child to strengthen those skills.
3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
If I was going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for my EQ, I would most likely talk to my mentor's assistant, Ms. Mary, because she gets to observe the children who are preschoolers/transitional kindergarteners/some kindergarteners for a full school day, five times a week. She knows what a child lacks when they get to the kindergarten level and how to help them and she also gets to help improve the skills of the preschoolers before they get to kindergarten.
As I previously mentioned in my December blog post, I mentor at a daycare/school and they were also on break, so I didn't get the opportunity to spend time with the kids. However, my mentor, Ms. Chami and I were talking about coming up with activities to present to the children. So, I scoured the internet, and Pinterest, to find stuff that both benefits the kids and lets them have fun and then I will show what I found to my mentor and we will see what we are going to do with them.
2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why? What was the source of what you learned?
Well my essential question is, "what is the most important skill a child develops in preschool that helps them best excel academically in kindergarten?", so began to think about how a child, or person in general, gains a new skill. I believe we learn something new either by seeing and/or doing. In my opinion, and from what I've seen at my mentorship, a child best learns when they are interacting with something new. So when I was looking up different activities I came across this link which explains what an activity in a Montessori learning curriculum is.
Another thing I learned from my mini activity research, is another solid piece to help me come up with an answer to my EQ, which is that fine motor skills are the most important. I found that information on this link; it also has various activities for a child to do. I read that many children have weak fine motor skills and in effort to improve upon those skills a teacher talks about different things you could teach the child to strengthen those skills.
3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?
If I was going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for my EQ, I would most likely talk to my mentor's assistant, Ms. Mary, because she gets to observe the children who are preschoolers/transitional kindergarteners/some kindergarteners for a full school day, five times a week. She knows what a child lacks when they get to the kindergarten level and how to help them and she also gets to help improve the skills of the preschoolers before they get to kindergarten.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Blog 10: EQ
1. Confirm you have read the following:
An essential question must:
a. Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, is not a yes/no
question)
b. Take a stance (It allows you to argue some point. Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
c. Format (It is specific. The wording makes sense)
I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ.
2. Review the following:
a. What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?
a.1. This EQ allows an individual to research different methods that affect weight loss and
how they contribute. It allows the researcher to make a decision based on what they
found was best; allows a stance to be taken. Meets the rule of 3.
b. What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?
b.1. This allows the researcher to look up previous convictions and what made them
successful, helping them answer their EQ. Once finished seeing what is successful it
allows researcher to take a stance based on the information they gathered. Meets
rule of 3.
c. What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?
c.1. This EQ seems very opinionated, because it is something based on what someone may
like and what another may not; makes arguing difficult. Does not meet rule of 3.
d. How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?
d.1. This EQ sets a very good research path because the researcher will be able to look up
information on anesthesiology and how it works; then they will also be able to tie it in
with what chronic pain is and how an anesthesiologist can best treat that pain, providing
different points of view. Meets rule of 3.
3. Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.
What is the most important skill a child develops in their early education that helps them best
excel academically?
An essential question must:
a. Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, is not a yes/no
question)
b. Take a stance (It allows you to argue some point. Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
c. Format (It is specific. The wording makes sense)
I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ.
2. Review the following:
a. What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss?
a.1. This EQ allows an individual to research different methods that affect weight loss and
how they contribute. It allows the researcher to make a decision based on what they
found was best; allows a stance to be taken. Meets the rule of 3.
b. What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?
b.1. This allows the researcher to look up previous convictions and what made them
successful, helping them answer their EQ. Once finished seeing what is successful it
allows researcher to take a stance based on the information they gathered. Meets
rule of 3.
c. What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer?
c.1. This EQ seems very opinionated, because it is something based on what someone may
like and what another may not; makes arguing difficult. Does not meet rule of 3.
d. How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain?
d.1. This EQ sets a very good research path because the researcher will be able to look up
information on anesthesiology and how it works; then they will also be able to tie it in
with what chronic pain is and how an anesthesiologist can best treat that pain, providing
different points of view. Meets rule of 3.
3. Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.
What is the most important skill a child develops in their early education that helps them best
excel academically?
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Blog 8: Research and Working EQ
1. What is your working EQ?
What are the most important skills a child can develop to have an impact on the way they excel academically?
2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.
EQ: What are the most important skills a child can develop to have an impact on the way they excel academically?
3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?
The most important source I have found most helpful in helping me think of a working EQ is a scholarly journal by Adele Diamond, titled Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control, it talks about a crucial factor in a child's life and that if it's missed it can affect a child later. This got me thinking about all the other skills necessary for a child to develop in order to do well in school and when they should develop them.
4. Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what your doing relate to your working EQ?
My mentor is MS. Chami and she works at Montessori Academy of Chino. By going to her classroom and interacting with the kids it relates and helps me answer my working EQ in the way that I get to see them being taught essential skills that will help them in future academic endeavors. They are being taught to work hands-on and how to interact with others around them -which improves their social skills-. I feel like my mentorship does a good job of knowing at what stage a child might be at and then helping them work on skills that need fine tuning, which I am now being introduced to and apart of by going, helping them do their worksheets, or just being a support for them and sitting there while they work.
What are the most important skills a child can develop to have an impact on the way they excel academically?
2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.
EQ: What are the most important skills a child can develop to have an impact on the way they excel academically?
- Children, and their educators, should focus on developing their motor skills .
- Social and interaction skills should be stressed at an early age as they both intertwine later in life both academically and personally.
- Cognitive control, although rarely taught, is an important skill for success in school and life, that if not introduced at an early age can hurt children later in life.
- Educators must also be aware of the certain stages a child goes through and how to address them, as at these stages certain skills should be focused on more than others.
3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?
The most important source I have found most helpful in helping me think of a working EQ is a scholarly journal by Adele Diamond, titled Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control, it talks about a crucial factor in a child's life and that if it's missed it can affect a child later. This got me thinking about all the other skills necessary for a child to develop in order to do well in school and when they should develop them.
4. Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what your doing relate to your working EQ?
My mentor is MS. Chami and she works at Montessori Academy of Chino. By going to her classroom and interacting with the kids it relates and helps me answer my working EQ in the way that I get to see them being taught essential skills that will help them in future academic endeavors. They are being taught to work hands-on and how to interact with others around them -which improves their social skills-. I feel like my mentorship does a good job of knowing at what stage a child might be at and then helping them work on skills that need fine tuning, which I am now being introduced to and apart of by going, helping them do their worksheets, or just being a support for them and sitting there while they work.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Blog 5: Mentorship and Research Reflection
1. Mentorship question: Describe your experience on how you found your mentorship? If you haven't found one yet, describe your experience so far in the search for a mentor.
Finding my mentorship was...interesting. I wanted to do my mentorship at a cosmetology school, and everything was good to go but then at the last minute it didn't work out with my would be mentor. When I was starting to sort of panic, I thought I'd give teaching a try, so I contacted my middle school teacher but she was too busy and our school hours were totally different, so that wasn't possible. My mom then told me of a family friend who worked at a daycare, and I thought that I should give it a try, I mean I've always loved kids and I know I want to follow a career path where I end up helping them in some way. So I went down to the daycare, talked to the director and she said she'd love to have me helping out; the first couple of weeks I didn't do much, I was at the front office making copies, filing papers, and answering phone calls but then I was allowed to go into a classroom, with supervision, and I ended up really liking it. Next Monday, I will be officially starting my mentorship for the year alongside my mentor.
2. Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?
The most important article that I have found is on Early Childhood Education and it is from the US Department of Education. I find it very important because within the article there are other links to specific programs, studies, handbooks, etc., and I know I will go back and explore the links to help me on my senior project.
Finding my mentorship was...interesting. I wanted to do my mentorship at a cosmetology school, and everything was good to go but then at the last minute it didn't work out with my would be mentor. When I was starting to sort of panic, I thought I'd give teaching a try, so I contacted my middle school teacher but she was too busy and our school hours were totally different, so that wasn't possible. My mom then told me of a family friend who worked at a daycare, and I thought that I should give it a try, I mean I've always loved kids and I know I want to follow a career path where I end up helping them in some way. So I went down to the daycare, talked to the director and she said she'd love to have me helping out; the first couple of weeks I didn't do much, I was at the front office making copies, filing papers, and answering phone calls but then I was allowed to go into a classroom, with supervision, and I ended up really liking it. Next Monday, I will be officially starting my mentorship for the year alongside my mentor.
2. Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?
The most important article that I have found is on Early Childhood Education and it is from the US Department of Education. I find it very important because within the article there are other links to specific programs, studies, handbooks, etc., and I know I will go back and explore the links to help me on my senior project.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ
1. List your topic here:
Early Childhood Education
2. Write a question that helps to focus on your research this month.
What is the most significant factor in helping a child transition into Kindergarten?
3.Post working bibliography (WB) on the right hand side of the blog and share it so anybody can view it.
The link has been posted on the right hand side of my blog. It can also be found here.
Early Childhood Education
2. Write a question that helps to focus on your research this month.
What is the most significant factor in helping a child transition into Kindergarten?
3.Post working bibliography (WB) on the right hand side of the blog and share it so anybody can view it.
The link has been posted on the right hand side of my blog. It can also be found here.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Blog 1: 2-Hour Presentations
1. What presentations did you see?
2. What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation you saw or what they said.
3. What has the most important part of the senior project been based on what you have seen in the 2-hour presentations?
Based on what I have seen from the 2-hour presentations I think the most important part of the senior project is knowing exactly what it is your mentor does and how it affects them. The best presentations I saw were the ones where people talked about not only their experiences and what learned during their mentorship but also about the life of someone actually doing the job.
4. What topic are you considering doing and why?
The topic I'm considering doing is cosmetology. I would want to do cosmetology because I feel like in the society we live now everything is about aesthetics and how things look and cosmetology is all about appearance and the way you make things look. Being the type of person who is a visual learner I think it would be the perfect topic for me.
5. What are you doing for your summer mentorship?
For my summer mentorship I plan to go to a cosmetology school a couple streets away from my house where I have asked the director if I could observe what they do and what it takes to be a cosmetologist.
- Teaching Biology: Alejandro Espinoza
- Educational Nonprofit Management: Eustacio Rodriguez
- Special Education: Diana Serrano
- Neonatal Nursing Intensive Care: Michelle Ortega
- Dentistry: Nitjasin QP
- Firefighting: Steven Robles
- Beauty Salon: Briana Ososrio
- HLE Officer: Devanna Terry
- HIV: Rhaven Innis
- STEM Involvement K-12: Brendan Trang
- Medical Missionary: RJ Baron
- No Kill Rescue Shelters: Elizabeth Valle
- Teaching Kindergarten: Alexis Teixerira
- Theater Acting: Gustavo Rios
2. What questions do you have that haven't been answered about the senior project? This can be about the senior project in general, any components or about a presentation you saw or what they said.
- What is the exact time requirement? What does "making time" mean?
- What are the minimum or maximum activities you can do? How does it affect your grade, if it does at all?
- How are you graded?
3. What has the most important part of the senior project been based on what you have seen in the 2-hour presentations?
Based on what I have seen from the 2-hour presentations I think the most important part of the senior project is knowing exactly what it is your mentor does and how it affects them. The best presentations I saw were the ones where people talked about not only their experiences and what learned during their mentorship but also about the life of someone actually doing the job.
4. What topic are you considering doing and why?
The topic I'm considering doing is cosmetology. I would want to do cosmetology because I feel like in the society we live now everything is about aesthetics and how things look and cosmetology is all about appearance and the way you make things look. Being the type of person who is a visual learner I think it would be the perfect topic for me.
5. What are you doing for your summer mentorship?
For my summer mentorship I plan to go to a cosmetology school a couple streets away from my house where I have asked the director if I could observe what they do and what it takes to be a cosmetologist.
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