Rough Draft of 30 min Presentation

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwRlije4fFfMVHRHYmpXdG13U2c/edit

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to prepare a child for Kindergarten?

2.Why is preschool beneficial for early childhood students?

3. Should early childhood/preschool teachers higher education be  any less than any teacher?

4. Do you feel a lower income student (ie. head start) has a disadvantage compared to one who goes to a quality preschool?

5. In your opinion does social/emotional development in the early years play an important role in a child's future?

6. Is parent involve in the early years of development critical to a child's future success?

7. How can non educated parents become more interested in the importance of early childhood preschool education?

8. What components make up a quality preschool?

9. How can you as a teacher ensure a parent of a slower learning student that they are receiving the same quality education as other students?

10. In your opinion should all early childhood/preschool teachers be well qualified through higher education and learning experience?

Blog 11 Mentorship 10 hours Check

            Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship? 
        I am doing my mentorship at Woodbury  Preschool Village in Altadena California. 
2.   Who is your contact?
       Genesis R. 
3.   How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?   

   I have done a total of 65 hours

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did. The 10 hours of service I did was spent with doing arts and crafts, language, english, mathematics, monitoring the kids growth and personal success,  and learning how hard being a preschool teacher is 
      
5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.    

Photos !! :)

Miss Mani to the Rescue 

Bear's Quiet Reading 

Learning and Exploring 

Blog 10 ( Senior Project Update)

  Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component?  

I am currently doing more research and prepping to start collecting data for the Science fair I should have the data in about a week or two. I've also been writing in and updating my science fair journal.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.  

The piece of research that I reviewed and helped me to get a little bit further in my Senior Project was an article Posted in the New York Times called : When should a child be ready for Kindergarten, In this article I learned a child is deemed ready / eligible when they can rationally differentiate between fruit and money, I also learned that in the 15 and 16th century children were deemed eligible when they could act rational. This is where the Idea of the Birthday? Birth year came to existence from these principles of the people from the 15th and 16th century.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched.  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/magazine/03kindergarten-t.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1354338076-/tjsNInLLu7vb2FSjOnFNg

Blog 5B Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

Early Childhood Development/ Preschools

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

There are not enough quality preschool's available for the common person to be enrolled to, This is a problem because kids are being deprived. 

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form)

If an child is not on the school reduce/free lunch program while taking preschool courses then the child will preform better academically.
4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  Include the tools you plan on using.

I plan to conduct this experiment by looking on the California Department of Education website. I also plan on using tools such as the California Census Bureau. I will also take race such as American American , White, Asian, and Hispanic into account. The other tool i will use is Income by finding the median income of ones family. The last tool I will use is rather or not the parents pay tuition for there child to go to school or if it's free.

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

Behavioral/Social Science

Blog #9 Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

What is the best way to better prepare a child for Kindergarten.(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation?  

How can one identify a quality preschool program?  

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? Qualification of the teachers, the background of the school, tuition base, and success rate of the preschool.