Senior Project Reflection

1.  Positive Statement 
1. I think I did really well with my activities, people seemed to really enjoy them
2. Questions to consider
1. I think I would give myself a AE. I met time, and was able to regurgitate all of my planned presentation material. People seemed to really enjoy my presentation a lot, I had no complaints afterwords, only complements. Just as a whole, I believe I did well 
2. Overall, I think I deserve a P on the senior project. I did well on the project, not exceedingly, but well enough.
3. What worked?
1. I liked i-Search, it was a way for me to plan what was going to be in my two hour. I used a lot of the material I had written in my i-Search, in my two hour. 
4. What didn't work
1. Research, I did not like the research aspect of it namely because I'm a horribly messy person. I'm terrible at keeping things together and so the research folder was a nightmare. 
5. How was senior project helpful 
1. i-Seach was the longest paper I've had to write in a long time. We don't do many essays, so writing this one was a helpful bit of practice for college life. Additionally it's made me more assertive, and that's always good for professional life

2-Hour Presentation

My Lesson plan

Service Learning

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• Monique Wiesmuller (626)-796-6011
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• The most important thing I gained from this experience was the ability to project a sense of self confidence and authority. It was really important to be able to do that when I was dealing with kids, because, like sharks, if the smelled fear they would move in for the kill. This new found skill will be helpful when the 2-hour comes around. 
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• Well, I think this was really one of the most helpful things to my senior project. It gave me a chance to try out and put into practice all the coaching skills and tips I'd been researching. It was a hands on experience. Without my service learning I think it would have been hard to come to a conclusive answer; articles on the internet just weren't enough. You can't be a coach with no one to coach.

Independent component 2

I, Benjamin Miyamoto, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
Literal
During this time, I've not only been able to brush up on skills, like the ones above, to teach, but I was also able to practice spotting on older people, who would be less likely to cry or hurt them selves if I messed up. Which I think was invaluable to my service learning experience.
Interpretative
Even after the previous weeks of practicing, I've finally made it to a point where I feel comfortable tumbling again. That comfort has made it a lot easier to teach. At least in my opinion, its much easier to teach what you actually know, versus things you vaguely remember doing. Its hard to look from an outside perspective and tell someone how to do something, without knowing how it feel to move that way, and the requirements it puts on your body. In addition, I started practicing vault, something I hadn't done for a while. I felt like I should start practicing vault again because that's become one of the only things that I get to teach by myself. Again its a familiarity issue. It's much harder to teach what you can't remember.
Applied
Well, by taking these classes I was better able to familiarize myself with the course material, in a sense. That allowed me to think of knew ways to teach in my service learning, new advice to give. It's hard to give the same advice over and over, doing my independent component help me to come up with new way to trying to teach. In addition it gave me a chance to safely practice spotting, something that is necessary to learn and a big part of one of my answers, but just not at the expense of small children. Taking these classes gave me to opportunity to practice on people that I would not be held responsible for.

Hours

Helping 2013

I Interviewed Ivy Jordan on 4/26/2012 at 12:40 pm.

1.       What Ideas do you have for senior project and why?

a.       I would like to do something in the art area, either photography or painting. Either way, I have to find connections. I want to do gallery work. I’ve been trying to get an internship in Pomona. I want to plan an art show rent out an entire gallery for a day and just host an art show

                                                               i.      Those are both really good ideas, the only problem you might have is service learning. I don’t know if you have connections, but getting a volunteer position at an art gallery might be tough. You might be able to become a docent at an art museum. If you can’t find service learning for that, there’s always Photo ROP

2.       What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning

a.       I plan to intern or volunteer at an art gallery in Pomona. I would help maintain paintings, and just generally learn about the gallery management..stuff.

                                                               i.      I didn’t have to do the ten hours, but that sounds like a good thing to do. It pertains to your senior project as well so that’s good.

3.       What do you expect to see when watching the class of 2012

a.       I expect to see lots of poster boards and people standing nervously in heels and clothes they don’t feel comfortable in. I expect people will know a lot about their topic and be able to share their ideas with the rest of us.

                                                               i.      Yea, that’s pretty much what it’s going to be like. A bunch of nervous people standing around mumbling through their nerves as they try to make sure they graduate. It’s going to be great!

4.       What questions do you have about senior project

a.       Do you know if it’s possible to arrange transportation off campus and take the entire day off then present the 2-hour in an art gallery somewhere? Then after I present some experts can come and talk.

b.      I don’t think anyone’s ever done that but you can try. I’m not sure if producing budgets  Does cal poly have an art gallery

Answer 3

What is the best way to coach children's gymnastics

Answer 3

Maintaining a positive attitude when dealing with students, especially disruptive ones.

Evidence

Children are like sharks. If they smell fear, they smell fear they'll attack and forever undermine you position in the eyes of other kids, making it much harder to exert any influence over them, namely teaching. Projecting a positive image at all times keeps the sharks a bay.

Staying consistently positive makes people like you more. Especially when teaching kids, being positive and happy goes a long way. The more positive you are, the more your students like you. The more your students like you, the more willing they are to learn, and the more willing they are to learn, the easier it is for you to coach. Maintaining a positive attitude also gives them a solid basis to judge your mood and personality. If you're mean and strict one day, then happy and positive the next, it throws everyone off and leaves them guessing, disrupting the potential bond between student and teacher.

Staying positive is also a good way to deal with misbehaving children. It's no fun to tease some one who doesn't react. This works the same way. Maintaining a positive attitude and almost not recognizing what they're doing works wonders. No one likes to be ignored, and if they only receive attention when they're good, then they'll behave well more often

Sources

Interview 2

Interview 4

Service learning

Room Creativity

1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation 

• I plan to have my presentation in the gymnastics gym up at Cal Poly. That failing, i'll use the small gym with some mats.

2) what activity ideas do you have for answers 1 or 2

• I was thinking about starting with some basic trust exercises, then adding a gymnastics element. Most people are strong enough to kick up to a handstand, so maybe i'll have partners spot each others handstands, giving support and stuff.