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

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.

Answer 2

EQ: What is the most important skill a gymnastics coach can have

Answer 2
Being able to establish a relationship with a gymnast based on trust, enabling a coach to successfully, and safely spot a gymnast on more advanced skills

Evidence 
One of the many things that makes gymnastics difficult is the fear element. Gymnastics can be scary, there's no getting around it. Fear can be attributed to more accidents and mistakes than lack of skill. One of the ways a gymnast gets over the fear of practicing a skill is with a spot. The spot not only serves as a correction for any mistakes a gymnast may make, but there's also a psychological aspect to it. Just knowing that, in case of a mistake, there's someone there to catch you takes the edge of the fear, enabling the gymnast to better practice the skill.

Spotting prevents injuries. One of the biggest issues with gymnastics is injuries. Gymnasts by definition are more prone to injuries because of what they do. But injuries are also avoidable, especially with a proper spot. Spotting helps prevent injuries, especially in the early stages of learning. You can run before you can walk, just like you cant pull giants to a double back dismount with out spotting first. Having a spot first helps you get the proper body motion down so later on you're competent enough to do it yourself

Spotting helps you learn. You can't try something with the intent to be amazing at it the first go. You're body doesn't quite know how to move yet, and the first couple of times its almost guaranteed you'll mess up. Learning with a proper spot first ensures that you know what you're doing. Not only does a proper spotter keep you from killing your self, but should also try to correct mistakes. Once you know how to do it the right way, your body remembers so that way you wont pick up any bad habits.

Sources 


My service learning. The coach who I assist has me practice spotting constantly, and continuously stresses the importance of a proper spot.

My old coach (who teaches my independent component) who takes me aside to show popper spotting techniques to students in my class during independent component.

Teaching children's gymnastics by Ilona E Gerling

Presentation 2 Rough Draft

My 20 min Rough Draft

Answer 1

What is the answer 1 to your EQ?

• My first answer is: Making sure the kids you're coaching know how to behave safely while using the potentially dangerous equipment.

What evidence do you have to have support this?

• During my time volunteering, I've seen a couple of minor injuries. Most of these injuries have been caused by unsafe equipment practices; if you don't fall right, you can hurt your ankles or back. These injuries could have been preventable if everyone in the class knew how too keep themselves safe on the equipment.

What sources did you use to find this evidence?

• My service learning.

Presentation Reflection

In what way did the first interview affect your presentation?  Please explain, be specific and use an example.

• The First interview made me realize that I had to completely switch the topic of the five min presentation. Initially I was going to do it on the various events in competitive gymnastics but then i realized how vital that information would be during later presentations and decided to save it. 

What you say stood out about your presentation performance and why?

• I would say my mumbling would have probably stood out. I tend to mumble and talk rather quickly and quietly, so when I was presenting I'm sure that was happening.

Also, I think I put too much emphases on the fact that death and or grievous injury could be a problem when playing on the equipment.
What challenges did you faced and why?

• I think the biggest challenge I faced during the presentation was my speech and the fact that I had to make my poster a school the night before instead of making a run to the crafts store. I didnt get to make it the way I wanted it with the materials that I needed. I had to make due with the things on hand.