Blog 14: Independent Component

literal: I, Rachel Hernandez, affirm that I have completed my Independent Component which represent 30 hours of work.
 log hours
At my mentorship all I do is help the kids with whatever they need help such as a math problem or telling them what a certian word means or helping them trying to figure out what a sentence means. Also when some of the classes that I would go into were very small, like two or three, I got to see how the teacher handle the classroom and how they taught their children.
 Interpretive:

Here is Conor's class in 5th period, which is his DHH English classroom. Right now he has a simple flash cards with a word in the front and a picture of the word in the back. When he shows the front side, which is the word, the students have to sign the word to make sure they know what they are reading and to match the signs with the word. For example the front side of the card says "shirt" the student would have to sign the word "shirt" and then Conor's would show the back side which would have a picture of a shirt. For me the most significant part was learning how the teachers taught their students.
Applied: The component helped me more on understanding on what me second answer is for my essential question. But this also helped me with understanding my foundation because it taught me how hard and the effort it takes to help these kids learn and to be successful in life. When I was in Conor's class he came up and told me that one of the students he has can't even read. He told me that she picks up the same book, Twilight, for the past 2 years because she knows it popular. He also told me that they put her on the waiting list in Riverside, there is a deaf school out there. She would've gone and helped her alot more than they could do but her parents didn't want to send her there. So what they have to do is, instead of giving her the normal paper test, he has a 'one on one' with her so to speak. He signs her the question and she answers and thats how she passes. But hearing that story it just proves my point that having a strong foundation in a language first will be able to benefit the student or child in the long run in his/her life.