Blog 22: 3-column chart

3-column chart

Blog 20: Three Column Chart first draft

Three column chart first draft

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLR's

 Ipoly's 4 ESLR's:

• Effective Learner
• Effective Communicator
• Effective User of Technology
• Effective Ipoly Citizen

The ELSR that I have excelled in my senior year, for me is the Effective Learner and Effective Communicator. I chose the Effective learner because we are suppose to assume responsibility for our own learning. At first, I did not like doing this at all. I didn't like to do research on my own, I kind of felt lost, and I didn't like the freedom that we have. It was too much for me at first. But over time I had gotten use to doing all these research checks and was getting into it. Getting excited when I found a cool article or a book that I knew was going to be very helpful.  I realized there is so much that I don't know and I just wanted to learn more and more. And what is more awesome is that everything that I am learning I can apply it to my mentorship and my independent component 2, which I am currently doing. I also chose Effective Communicator because I've always been the type of person who enjoyed working by myself and can adapt in working in groups. But my biggest problem that I have always had was communicating with other people. So what I notice about myself, especially this year, was that I had to communicate with my teachers in order to gain better understand of what we should be doing and just trying to do my best this year.

I'm not sure if you can see the picture clearly but the first two pictures is of a website that really helped me a lot on improving my signing skills when I go to my mentorship. The bottom picture is something that I have been working on my Independent Component 2. Its just a picture of one of my lesson plan and what I was going to teach them for that day and the problems that I was going to use.

Blog 18: 2 hour meeting answer 3

1. What is your essential question?
How can deaf elementary student best become grade level literate?
2. What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?
My third answer is knowing the instructional strategies that are best for their class or students
3. What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

• Every student is a different type of learner. So if a teacher always gives lectures and the student is a visual learner, the student will have a difficult time retaining the information.
• When the teacher creates, establish, and enforces a safe environment in the classroom, the student then feels "safe" and will be able to work and listen better.
• Knowing different technique is important because if you use a technique called Cubing, where you look at something from different sides. One side you compare it, associate it, analyze it, apply it, and then argue for or against it. This is a great idea for a English class, but not as useful in a math class. Maybe for a math class we can use the "Think, Pair, Share" technique.

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

The most important source that not only help me get me to this answer but also help me to justify my answer was a book called Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One size doesn't fit all by: Gayle H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman.
5. What do you plan to study next and why?
I would like to research further in the technology that is available and the different sources that a teacher can use for their class that will help their students.

Blog 16: 2- hour meeting Answer 2

Content:

1.  How can a deaf elementary student best become grade level literate?

2.  My second answer to my essential question is knowing different support services and more specifically knowing about speech therapy.

3. Support services are going to speech therapy, going to the audiologist, or even learning cued speech and more. All these services do go hand in hand and work together. The audiologist gives the student a hearing test then provides hearing aids. Going to speech therapy helps with productions of sounds. Lastly if you learn cued speech it helps improve with their literacy or learning sign language they are learning a visual language because they might not be retaining what they are hearing (if they are hard of haring).

4. The source that help me come to this conclusion was source number 18 on my WB. Source number 18 helped me because the journal talked and about all the different support services that are available for the deaf child and the benefits that they have for the child.
 

5.  I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by learning more of the different support service that are out there for deaf child and to be knowledgeable in each support services but to be an expert in speech therapy. This is important because even sign language is consider a support service and these children need all the help they can get to become successful in life and with these service they can achieve that goal.

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.

Working EQ and possible answer

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?
      For the presentation I used "What is the best way for a hearing impaired student to learn in a classroom?" as my working EQ.

(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here. If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".
     I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ?
      Some of the possible answers to my EQ is that:

•  For the teacher to have a wide range of vocabulary and to know different home signs
•  Having to give the attention that the students need to be able to focus on their work
• Lastly, is to be prepared so you can be able to meet the needs of the students. 

Topic Choice

A) My topic is deaf culture. I chose this topic because my eldest sister is deaf and growing up with a deaf sister I also grew up with her friends. I noticed they didn't always follow the same social behaviors as hearing people.When one of my sister's friend came up to me and told me that I looked so worn out, I was embarressed. But seeing from the reaction on my face she took the time to explain to me that deaf people are very stright forward and that whatever they say isn't meant to hurt anyone but is said out of concern and to show that they care. That day I've only learned the tip of the iceberg about deaf culture. There is still a whole other side that I have yet to discover.

B)

• Ipoly Citizen: I plan to learn the whole aspect of deaf culture and to experience it as well. This relates to me inproving as an Ipoly citizen because I am able to to spread the knowledge to my fellow peers and spread awareness anout deaf culture.
• Effective Communicator: I plan on becoming a better communicator by interviewing different people such as: deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) teachers, interpreters, and deaf people. This will make me a more effective communicator because I would have interaction with educators in that field and I can apply what I learned later in life.
• Effective Learner: I plan on shadowing special day classes. This will make a more effective learner because I will able to to see and have the hands on experience to expand my knowledge.
• Effective use of Technology: I plan on learning new skill on the internet. This will make me a more effecitve user of tecnology because deaf are very visual and do lots of net working, so by using the internet I can spread more awareness to my community through the technology that the deaf use.