Content:
(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your Block Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
I am most proud of being able to interact with the audience. I felt like I really engaged the audience and I felt like everyone was ACTUALLY paying attention. It felt good to know that they were paying attention, it made me feel like I was respected, and that in itself is a great feeling. I really loved how the class was attentive and cooperative.
(2) Questions to Consider
a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?
(AE) I would give myself an AE
b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
(P) I would give myself a P
(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
I felt that the things that worked for me include maintaining a log, consistent research checks, and blog posts. All these things helped me stay concentrated and kind of guided me to keep myself attentive and poised for success.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?
I believe that having my essential question that I ended the year with, I wish I could have had that essential question since the beginning of the year because in the beginning I had an entirely different essential question and I had to make a lot of work up due to the fact of switching my essential question, so I wish I could have gone back and picked my FINAL essential question since the beginning.
(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors? Be specific and use examples.
Senior Project has worked wonders for me and my future endeavors. For example through my senior project, I met my mentor Karla Vallejo Rodriguez whom is an amazing individual and is a marriage and family therapist whom took me under her wing and showed me the ropes. It has been an unbelievable experience being able to work with somebody who is in my desired field of work. All the experience with her only reinforced my desire to pursue that career of therapy. I now have a valuable connection with somebody who works in my desired career field and I know that now my range of possibilities has opened because my mentor Karla can one day help me get a job, or reference me to her other therapist friends. Senior project has also given me plenty of volunteer hours which I may now put in my resume as volunteer experience. All in all it was a pain in the butt, but a very valuable experience and I have no regrets. I loved everything, and I am confident to pursue my career now.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Mentorship
Content:
Literal:
-Log is already updated and posted on the right hand side of my blog as "Mentorship Log"
Contact Name: Karla Vallejo Rodriguez
Mentorship Place: Pacific Clinics School Based Therapy. In this case: Bassett High School
Interpretive:
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
-The most important thing that I gained from this experience of mentorship had to do with basically that, experience! Thanks to mentorship I was able to get a taste of how it would actually be to one day be a therapist. My mentor, allowed me to work with her directly as she planned, and went through with adolescents and conducted therapy. I have also gained a vital possible network through my mentor. Now if one day she lives out her dream to have a private practice then maybe one day when I'm trying to find a job when I'm out of college my mentor can possibly help me find a job. Or, if it doesn't go that way I can also possibly get a recommendation for my mentor when I try to get a job because by that time my mentor will have lots of credibility with many years of experience and possibly people that she can refer me to. All in all, my mentorship was a life changing experience.
Applied:
How has what you've done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
-My mentorship has helped me answer my essential question pretty directly! For instance my EQ is "what is the best way a therapist can help an adolescent cope with stress?" and I have been working with my mentor Karla (who is a therapist) and have worked with her and high school students from bassett high school (adolescents) thus I have directly worked with the key parts of my essential question. Through my mentorship I have been able to hear real life stories about adolescents and their stress. Fore example some get stressed due to financial stability. Meanwhile others get stressed due to not being able to express their emotions because there parents aren't open minded. Thus I came up with my first answer through my mentorship because my mentor taught me how to identify the sources of stress in adolescents and explain to them how to change what they do in order to ensure a less stressful lifestyle. I have also found my answer 3 through my mentorship by hearing stores about adolescents that aren't good at expressing themselves, which they need to learn in order to release stress. In conclusion my mentorship has allowed me to work first hand with the variables of my essential question and allowed me to come up with 2 answers.
Literal:
-Log is already updated and posted on the right hand side of my blog as "Mentorship Log"
Contact Name: Karla Vallejo Rodriguez
Mentorship Place: Pacific Clinics School Based Therapy. In this case: Bassett High School
Interpretive:
What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
-The most important thing that I gained from this experience of mentorship had to do with basically that, experience! Thanks to mentorship I was able to get a taste of how it would actually be to one day be a therapist. My mentor, allowed me to work with her directly as she planned, and went through with adolescents and conducted therapy. I have also gained a vital possible network through my mentor. Now if one day she lives out her dream to have a private practice then maybe one day when I'm trying to find a job when I'm out of college my mentor can possibly help me find a job. Or, if it doesn't go that way I can also possibly get a recommendation for my mentor when I try to get a job because by that time my mentor will have lots of credibility with many years of experience and possibly people that she can refer me to. All in all, my mentorship was a life changing experience.
Applied:
How has what you've done helped you to answer your EQ? Please explain.
-My mentorship has helped me answer my essential question pretty directly! For instance my EQ is "what is the best way a therapist can help an adolescent cope with stress?" and I have been working with my mentor Karla (who is a therapist) and have worked with her and high school students from bassett high school (adolescents) thus I have directly worked with the key parts of my essential question. Through my mentorship I have been able to hear real life stories about adolescents and their stress. Fore example some get stressed due to financial stability. Meanwhile others get stressed due to not being able to express their emotions because there parents aren't open minded. Thus I came up with my first answer through my mentorship because my mentor taught me how to identify the sources of stress in adolescents and explain to them how to change what they do in order to ensure a less stressful lifestyle. I have also found my answer 3 through my mentorship by hearing stores about adolescents that aren't good at expressing themselves, which they need to learn in order to release stress. In conclusion my mentorship has allowed me to work first hand with the variables of my essential question and allowed me to come up with 2 answers.
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