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 17: 4th interview questions

1. How can a deaf elementary student best become grade level literiate?
2. What are some challenges that you face when teaching your elementary students?
3. What kind of visuals do you use and why?
4. What kind of support services does this school or school district provide for the deaf student?
5. When you are teaching, which do you think best benefits the student: being oral or using sign language?
6. What kind of signing do you use in the class? (ASL-American Sign Language, SEE-Sign Exact English, Pidgin sign-a mixed of both)
7. I read in a blog and it said, "SEE was develop in the early 1970's to better enable deaf students to learn better English." (Lineham) Do you agree that SEE does help deaf learn better English? Why or why not?
8. What challenges do you see the child face in the the classroom?
9. Do you think it would be easier for the child if the parents learned sign language?
10. How does ASL grammar and English grammar differ?
11. From your experience what is the best way to teach this grade level and why?
12. Do you think that cochlear implants really help the student to do well academicly?
13. What is the difference between speech and language?
14. What are your thought and feelings on the Rochester method and on cued speech?
15. When you first started teaching, what were the peperations that you had to make?
16. Going back to the first year of teaching, how was your experience?
17. What was one "Ah-huh" moments that you had that you felt you made progress with your students?
18. How can you prepare the students to transition them from elementary to middle school?
19. In your own words, describe what Sign Language is.
20. What is deaf culture?

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.

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.

My essential question: How can a hearing impaied elementary student best become grade level literate in English?

Blog 13: Rough draft 30 min presentation

30 min Rough Draft