Blog 19: Independent Component 2

LITERAL

(a) Statement saying: “I, Sabrina Dalan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

(b) In “Play: The Pathway From Theory to Practice” by Sandra Heidemann and Debbie Hewitt, they listed a few games preschool student’s could play. The teachers at the YMCA also helped me understand how to answer my EQ better.

(c) Sabrina's Senior Project Hours

(d) My Independent Component 2 was like my Independent Component 1. I continued with helping making and preparing activities with my mentors. Then I would play games with the children such as “Mr. Fox, What Time Is It?” or play puzzles with them. I would also supervise the children when they would work on activities.

INTERPRETIVE

Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

APPLIED

How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

This component helped me answer my essential question because of the interviews I have had with the teachers at the YMCA. They helped me come up with my three answers for my EQ and they helped me see those answers applied in the classroom. 

April Additional Blog

So this month, the YMCA celebrated Easter. We had activities to prepare the children for easter, so they made rabbits, little chicks, and decorated eggs. They had an easter egg hunt so all the children had to make their own baskets to hold their eggs. From what my mentor told me, parents donated a lot of easter eggs so each child in the YMCA had about 25-35 eggs.

The other theme we had for this month was planting, so we had the children plant their own flowers.

We also had a small yogurt day. All the children brought in some fruit, granola, or yogurt donation so we had lots of healthy fruit.

March Additional blog

Hey guys!

So this month at my mentorship, the theme was sports!

The first week of March, the kids played soccer. The whole week, they learn the rules and by Friday, they had a game with the other classes.

The second week, they had a basketball game. Like with the weeks before the, they learn the rules and had a game with the other class.

The next week was a baseball game and the week after was a football game.

Blog 18: Fouth Interview Preparation

1. What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their student’s social and emotional development?
2. What kinds of outdoor activities can help children develop their social-emotional development?
3. What kinds of indoor activities can develop a student’s social-emotional development?
4. What is a good technique to get a child to open up to a teacher?
5. What technique has worked for you to get to know a child? How were the results?
6. What are some signs that a child needs more attention in developing their social-emotional development?
7. If a child usually self-talks, what should a teacher do to help them talk with others? What is the best technique?
8. Some children may be too shy to approach others. How would a teacher help the child interact other students without breaking down
9. When a child uses destructive self talk, what should a teacher do? Why?
10. How can a preschool teacher get a child involved in group play if he just wants to isolate himself?
11. What kind of one-on-one can a parent do with their child to see what they can do to improve their child's social-emotional development at home?
12. Since there are alternative ways in school to do discipline a child without "time out", what are good techniques to discipline a child at home?
13. What programs do you recommend to parents to put their child in if they have difficulty developing their social-emotional development?
14. Knowing that the preschool age group is still working on language development, what is a good way to teach them words to express their feelings?
15. I read that nursery rhymes could help a child learn. How can nursery rhymes help a child’s social-emotional development?
16. These days, many kids love watching TV. What kinds of shows or videos could help a child develop their social-emotional development?
17. Do you have any good storybooks that could help develop a child’s social-emotional development? If so, what are a few good books?
18. I learned from another teacher that it would be best to get to know a child to see their social-emotional development level. Working with many kids, how do you get one-on-one with a child to learn about them?
19. Is there a technique that all preschool teachers use to develop all their student's social-emotional development although they might be at different levels? If there is, what is that technique and how is it taught to the students?
20. Could interaction with animals help a child's social-emotional development? How?

Blog 17: Third Answer

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:
EQ

• What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development?

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

• The most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development is to observe and get to know the child to see what they need to work on.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

• All children are different; age and skill level

• Can’t teach same strategy that teaches a 5 year old to a 3 year old because they won't understand it

• See what child like to do and get them to teach other students

The research source (s) to support your details and answer

• Play: The Pathway from Theory to Practice by Sandra Heidemann and Deborah Hewitt

• Interview 3

Concluding Sentence

• Before you could actually teach a child, you have to know what level they are at. You have to know what they know and find out what ways can help them learn.

February Additional Blog

February! This month, we celebrated Valentine's Day and all our friends at the Y gave out treats. Each of the kids had made a mailbox (with a shoe box) to hold all their treats. Since the kids get really hyper with sugar, we had to hold their mailboxes on a top self until their parents came to pick them up.

(Gifts from my mentor and other teachers)

I haven't been going to mentorship much this month, but I know that the theme for most of our arts and crafts was music. I cut out musical notes for the kids to glue on their music sheets and they made musical instruments (2D ones).

Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them Emotional self-regulation, which will help children understand, identify, and manage their own and others feelings.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them through play so they have hands on experience with their emotions and others emotions.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1.  Children love to play

2. In play, children have to communicate to get a turn with a toy or to join the game.

3. Children could learn how to manage their emotions with roleplay.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

"Play: The Pathway From Theory to Practice" by Sandra Heidemann and Debbie Hewitt [book]

"Support Social and Emotional Development - Through Play!" by Zrinka Peters [article]

6.  What other source supports your answer?

My interview 3.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Because children always think about play, why not make learning fun by teaching them about emotions through play.