1. What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?
Teaching Kindergarten by Daniela Diaz, Preschool Special Education by Ilse Gutierrez, and Teaching Elementary by Daisy Torres. I found these three presentations very helpful because they all relate to the topic I was thinking about doing for my senior project. The presentations ave me an insight into what my senior year can look like and it also gave me some ideas on what I could use as my essential question for my senior project.
2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?
During senior and junior interviews the seniors I was paired with helped me a lot, calming me and telling me that senior presentation isn't as scary or bad as it is made out to be. They recommended to always stay on top of our work such as the research notebooks and mentor ship hours, and they also said it got easier when you didn't leave a whole pile of work left for the end.
3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?
The two topics I was thinking about doing were: social work and teaching. After looking further into both of those topics i discovered i was more intrigued in teaching and it was also be very difficult to do anything in the field of social work due to confidentiality reasons. So for my senior project I would like to look into teaching because it is a career path I have always wanted to find out more about.
4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest).
" What are important factors contributed in efficiently teaching a kindergarten classroom?"
5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?
For my summer mentorship hours I was going to begin working with a teacher towards the middle of the summer and help her set up her classroom for the following year and also help set up a schedule for what curriculum would be taught over the school year.
