Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Statement saying: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.” I only have 20 hours
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component
• MY Mentor is Mrs. Smith at Cortez Elementary School
  (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours).   Post it next to your mentorship log. 
• What I have completed is helping around the 
• 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.  
  
• When I worked with the kids I found that certain students had different ways of learning.  When I say worked with them, I mean when I would help them with their class work or homework. For example I would tutor this boy with his homework and any time their was a short story to read he would get distracted.So that was when my EQ changed from finding out  what would make a teacher a good teacher to my EQ now which is more about helping the students more than gauging a teachers greatness.
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 
• It has helped me understand that teaching especially little kids isn't easy. Watching my mentor I now see how much patience is truly put into her job. When I researched I would find articles about concrete methods that would help students "learn" better but from Mrs. Smith I learned that because every kid is different those methods are not so concrete, and sometimes have to be tweaked to fit the class.