Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

• I am most proud of the fact that my audience was very respectful and would laugh at my jokes. But I am most proud of the fact that my activity had an AMAZING response. Every one was engaged and was working the way I wanted to work. My instructions were very clear and the audience was very cooperative.

(2) Questions to Consider
a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
AE       P          AP       CR       NC
b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project? 

• Everything had gone according to plan for me. My powerpoint was very helpful to me and had just the perfect amount of words. My activity was amazing, I had all of my materials (food) and had kept all of my audience engaged and focused.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

• The only thing that didn't work was that I could have gone over my powerpoint one more time, because during my presentation I had found a few errors. Also I would have passed out my materials in a different way. Perhaps as the steps went along rather than pass them out before I jumped into my activity.

(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.

• The senior project has been very helpful to me when it comes to researching. At the beginning of the senior project all of my results had to do with the "top ___ ways of teaching middle schoolers" but as the year progressed I learned how to search what I was looking for. 

Blog 18- Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

• What is the best way to ensure that middle school students retain what they learn in class?

2. What is your first answer? (In complete sentence format)

• My first answer in answering my EQ was being able to teach in a method that appealed to every students learning method. So teach to the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.

3.What is your second answer? (In complete sentence format)

• My second answer could be to give the students either longer breaks or more access to their electives. Teaching them that it's okay not to be right 100% of the time as long as they learned from the mistake.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• It has been proven that students who take band as an elective get a 23% higher grade in their core classes compared to students who don't take band.
• Ipoly itself has a ten minute passing period for students to unwind, and we have a tiny campus as it is.
• yes

5. What printed source best supports your answer.

• The printed source that best supports my answer was my thirty-seventh source because of what student do with their electives and what they can do with their stress levels.

6. What other source supports your answer?

• Several TED Talks help support my answer, one that sticks out is the one I have for my fourty-eighth source. It talked about how schools are seen to be killing creativity in their students.

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.

• Students in the US are the most stressed out then they ever have been in years. And the stress can lead to health problems, some students suffer anxiety/panic attacks. We can't just remove them from school, but we can make it more bearable. Hopefully by funding/adding more electives this can be something they look forward to as well as a place for them to unwind and channel out the stress that can build up.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• I am most proud of being able to talk about what I do in mentorship. Mentorship plays a HUGE part of my senior project and to be able to talk about it was very nice.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

     b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• I feel that I deserve a P because I was had proper projection of my voice through out my entire presentation. I was dressed professionally and was able to engage the audience. My activity had the entire class invested into it as well as providing the debrief after I concluded my activity. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

• What had worked for me in my lesson 2 was being able to have a power point with me as well as one of my friends controlling my power point slide right besides me. Also I enjoyed being able to add an activity to my presentation to help me see how my classmates were enjoying my presentation.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

• I would have talked more about what I have done research as well as my independent component. I may have also added more to my activity.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• I believe my answer 2 could be about how students should be given more time to having a break in between their classes. It doesn't necessarily need to be too long, just as long as it's longer than 3 minutes. Something along the lines of extending their resting period or having less classes in one day and more time spent in one class.

Blog 11: Lesson 1 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?

• I am most proud of being able to remain calm while presenting and not losing my train of thought. I had not cards up there with me just in case I lost my place. For the most part my note cards didn't have word for word what I was saying, they were more like bullet points to help me remember what I was supposed to cover. 

2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.

• I believe that I deserve a P for my first lesson. My volume was always constant and I had no issues with my enunciation. My body language was professional with a little nervousness, I always had eye contact to peoples foreheads and not always on my note cards. I had engagement with the audience with my story telling and by inserting jokes. My research had been properly cited and I went into clear detail about what I do at my mentorship.

3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson?  How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?

• If I could change something about my lesson I would have loved to bring in more props. The ones I had were good but they could have been better. I can use this knowledge to help me with my lesson two by making it a bit more interesting and more engaging for my peers.