Blog 21: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Rahel Hernandez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b)  Sharon Gough (Mentor), Michelle Benavides (Interpreter), and  http://www.tsdvideo.org/ (website)
(c) hours log
(d) Mrs.Gough, my mentor allowed me to teach her 5th period class (it was her 5th period class because that was the time that I would be able to make it after school) .  

INTERPRETIVE
The significant part of my independent component 2 was coming up with the lesson plans. I never know the time and effort that went in to making a good lesson plan. Also how I was going to teach them took alot of planning. I would search up ideas on how to teach a certain topic. Or if I didn't know how to sign a certain word I would have to look it up. I actually went over to Michelle's house and we went over on how to sign my lesson plan I had for the following day.


I use this same picture as on blog 19. I feel like this capture how my independent component 2 was for me. Looking up how to sign words and making lesson plans.

APPLIED
I choose to do this as my second independent component because  I thought it might support my second answer which was knowing different instructional strategies.  My plan was to find which strategies work best for this class that I had. The independent component 2 really did help me understand that every child does learn differently than other. While teaching the class (which is only a class of 3) there was one student who seem to not be comprehending the topic. It was frustrating on my part because I felt like I wasn't doing a good job and I did not know how to explain it any better. In one of our 2-hr house Purther  suggested that I look into IEP (Individualized Education Program). When I looked it up the main purpose of an IEP is to set a goal  for the child and have them try to achieve that goal. Learning all of this, my answer did sort of change to setting an IEP for the student.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 approval

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For my independent component study 2 I'm planning on going to my metorship place and go into Mrs.Gough's 5th period class and teach her subject, which is math.
(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
It will meet the 30 hours requirement because not only will the time to make up the lesson plans and looking for new idea on how to make the students to become engaged in the the class but if you also take into consideration the time I will be there teaching and each class is about an hour long. So I figured teaching at least once a week till this independent component is due is how I will make the requirement.
(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?
This helps me with my EQ because in one of my answers I was thinking about how instructional strategies plays a very important role in help the students improve in the classroom. 

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.

Senior Project Update

1) What I am doing currently on my independent component is doing an extra 30 hours of my mentorship at South Hills High School.


2) The research that really was beneficial to me was a thesis paper that I found written by Kimberly Johnson. When I was at my mentorship, Mrs. Gough, has me help the student with their math assignment for that day. While helping one of the students I came across a word I didn't know how to sign and the student and I were both stuck. I couldn't help him and he was not able to solve the problem. For the next research check I stumbled upon this thesis paper and reading it during research check it gave me a, what I think could be a possible answer to my essential question: You need to have a wide range of vocabulary. What I want to do next is to figure out which signs, since there are two "ways" you can sign (ASL or English), deaf perfer or helps them to retain the knowledge that they learned.


3)

These pictures are of the notes I take when I go to my mentorship. Some of the things that I write down are how the teacher operate in the class, her method of teaching, even how she moves the desk in the most unnusal way (the litttle drawing are the seating charts for the class). One of my notes talks about how there was a substitute who didnt know any sign language and how she had a hard time runnung the class and how she look relieved when I told her I knew how to sign. She had me interpret for the deaf students.