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WHAT I DID/LEARNED
Ongoing
Senior Seminar
10/29/2014 Meeting with Marti-Researched new articles specifically about ELL Parents. More
specifically on how the parents background influences their
expectations for their child's education. The article caught me a little
off guard because I've always was led to believe that a parent
wouldn't normally interact due to their child's language learning.
Turns out that ELL parents have postive effects on that aspect, but
need more help in the support apsect. I've read part of the article so
far, but the other parts are going to give specific examples of two
different families and answer the three questions asked in the
11/12/2014 beginning.
Meeting with Marti: we discussed about my senior project outline.
We tried to figure out how to make the paper flow between the
different topics and find other resources to use. In addition, Marti
helped me think through the paper. I had ideas on the outline, but as
I spoke, the ideas became more clear. Marti also gave me an idea of
12/19/2014 speaking with a reading specialist which I will look into.
Phonecall with Courtney: Courtney is a teacher/board member of
the school CIty Year. She works alongside low-income students in
Providence. We talked about her position in the school and how the
school works with engaging parents. There are different groups in
the school that work with both the community and parents in
engaging with the school. This group comes together every week
and have parent nights or potluck once a month. According to
Courtney, despite their efforts, not many parents show up to the
meetings. Beside the parent nights, the school has parents
volunteering within the school daily. Each teacher tries to
communicate with the teachers differently so its difficult to say which
methods are working. The most parents come in are when there are
giveaways... the committee uses incentives to get the parents
involved. In terms of non-english speaking parents, City Year has a
bilingual learning program, but once children are fluent in english,
they are no longer part of the bilingual program. Remind Courtney to
12/29/2014 give me the contact info of the members of the committees.
Began writing the background for research paper. Got at least a
page done but stiil need to search for a better way to write it and
1/9/2015 include more statistics and information
Added statistics into the outline and explained the significance of
them in terms of thesis. Still need to find some statistics or
1/14/2015 information for some parts but I have a general idea.
I read a study about the difference between ELL and EL1 students
how much much their parents communicate and are involved with
the child's education. They used kindergarten children and tested
both their reading abilities and mathematic abilities and tried to form
a connection between involvement and the results of the test.
Parents from both ELL and EL1 have around the same highest
education level. The results of this study showed that ELL parents
do communicate less with their child's teacher but are just as
involved with the child's education as the EL1 parents. In addition,
there is no significant difference between both reading and
mathematics test scores of the children from both groups. This study
suggests that involvement is more significant than communication.
Despite these conditions, there is an important sentence in this
study that says involvement is a SHARED responsibility meaning
that the parents and teachers must work together in order to help
the children. They need to communicate in order to reach
1/12/2015 understanding and a concensus.
Emailed Gipsys, a family outreach ambassador, and scheduled a
meeting with her for Thursday at 5pm. Need to discuss the location
1/20/2015 of the meeting.
Outlined section 3 and continued to write section one. Still need to
finish one subsection for section one and need to start writing
1/21/2015 section three.
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2/4/2015 Corrected proposal and handed it to Marti to look over for feedback.
Worked on ideas for counter arguments, continued writing
introduction, but I'm not sure whether I should talk about my own
personal experience... I feel like it could add perspective, but I don't
think it would be a good idea... I'll talk to Christina since she'll have a
good feedback on it. Took notes on some articles and organized a
2/4/2015 new binder for my research and project.
Research more articles for counter arguments... Still need to find
more... There are some holes for certain sections and researched
it... Created the outline for the counter arguements with facts to
refute the claim/statistic.. Wrote it more like I would write it for my
2/5/2015 research paper so I can simply plug back in..
Researching for counterarguments. Read a couple articles about
parent perspectives, but some that were more specifically focused
on that is only on J store that I have to pay for... I wrote my
introduction and finished section 1. I included graphs to better
demonstrate the correlation between certain factors and children
2/6/2015 success
Continued writing section 2. It seemed a little off to me, but I just
wrote everything that came to mind at first just so that my ideas
were down on physical paper. I tried to start writing my counter
arguement paragraphs, but my arguments don't seem that great... I
feel like I could make a better stance and refute them, but I can't find
articles to support the claims I tried making. Everything I found
2/8/2015 seemed opinionated and it didn't help me at all.
Finished writing section two. It sounds a lot better compared to a few
days ago. I continued with trying to find research for my counter
arguments since I hardly have anything. I spoke with Stacy about
possible idea for counter arguments and went from there. I began
writing those sections. Right now, they seem good enough for my
first draft but afterwards, I can get feedback and more ideas on how
I can possibly fix it. Didn't realize I hadn't finished the background
and took initiative to write something down. WHY IS IT SO HARD
2/10/2015 TO WRITE A HOOK TT~TT
Met with marti about my proposal. Signed off, but she gave me
some input about how I should be careful of what I say in stating
information. Since I have no credibility as an adult or a parent, I
should be careful on how to say a parents needs to be involved. I
2/11/2015 cant demand parents to do certain things. I need to encourage them.
Finished writing section three. I reread through everything I had so
far and began taking of weird sentences and tried to explain my
statistics and facts better. Some parts I explained were a little
confusing so I tried to fix that to the best of my abilities. It's due
2/11/2015 friday and I want it to be a good draft
This day was dedicated to making sure my paper was fine. I finished
writing my introduction and conclusion, and I looked over my paper
again and again. I forgot to put some sources in my works cited so I
put those there. In my paper, I forgot some in-text citations. In one of
my counter arguments I completely forgot one point and I tried to
squeeze it in. And I constantly just reread my paper over for
mistakes, and kept rewriting explanations.. I was panicking about
2/12/2015 how my draft ended up.
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Emailing back and forth with Denis Debarros from the Central Falls
3/2/2015 School District about my project and meeting
I met with Denise about how the Central Falls School District is
trying to engage parents in their child's education. One of the
coolest things they added in each school was a parent lounge.
Inside this lounge are couches, computers, white boards, bulletin
board with after school activities, a copy machine and a volunteer
log in sheet. Now, these schools are constantly encouraging parents
to at least come by the parent lounge as a resource they can use to
learn themselves. Not only does it help them learn, but it
encourages parents to create a relationship with the school depsite
how scary it may seem. In addition to the parent lounge, the schools
hold all kinds of activities open to parents and their families. For
example, on Wednesdays starting next week, there will be weekly
yoga classes for parents and their children. Also, there are ESL
classes, computer classes and so much more. It is just so awesome
3/4/2015 to see how the schools changed from when I was there.
Edited the first three pages of my research paper. Mainly I did the
grammatically corrections Marti put first. I tried to fix some of the in3/5/2015 text citations and the works cited since I did most of them wrong.
Edited another portion of my paper. I rewrote my thesis in order to
inlude certain ideas onto my paper, but I am still a little iffy about it. I
still need to make pretty big corrections and more research in order
3/11/2015 to have my counter arguments.
Researched some parent-child literacy activities for my senior
project. I started an informative brochure.. Just started on the layout
3/18/2015 first and then will decide what I will insert into it.
Corrected small grammar mistakes found throughout my paper.
Began researching more ideas for my counter arguments using the
3/19/2012 links and articles marti provided to me.
Went to Dorcas Institute for a volunteer orientation. Got a position
for a volunteer for the Toyota Family Literacy event. I start on
3/19/2015 Monday from 3:30 to 5:30 every monday.
Researched more articles for my counter arguments. Marti
mentioned that I could switch my arguments and mention more facts
and/or ideas to strengthen that section. I found more indepth
information about how parents feel about the school. There is one
parent that mentioned they feel uncomfortable talking with the
school because teachers mainly want to speak with parents to
discuss how their children are troubled both academically and
attitude wise. In addition, some agree that because they cannot
speak English and did not finish their schooling, helping their child
with homework is difficult. I decided to put that information in my
3/20/2015 counter argument.
Began rewriting my counterarguments. Included the ideas that I
researched and extended my argument to be stronger and more
3/22/2015 convincing.
Went to Dorcas Institute for my Volunteer position. There were some
confusion on where it would take place (two campuses) and I
couldn't make it to the first one. I emailed my supervidor Yomely to
talk about the confusion. She said to call and to be ready for next
3/23/2015 monday to volunteer.
Emailed different schools asking if I could create the Literacy
Leaders program at the school. Schools I emailed were ICS next
3/24/2015 door and Ella Risk in Central Falls.
Began researching different parent activities to use as part of the
club and for the possible parent night with the students. Found
different (and creative) activities, but I need to be able to find
different activities for different grade levels. Not sure what can
appeal to children in 1st and 2nd grade.... I discussed with my sister
about which activities and she decided to give me some ideas about
different activities too.... I pasted the links onto a different doc with
3/25/2015 the actvities.
Briefly met with Marti to disuss my paper and project. Got my paper
3/26/2015 signed off!! :)
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In the morning, Jazlyn had just shared with me the worksheet for her
project. I don't mean to sound rude, but you can tell that she literally
made it in the morning. It was completely confusing and I had to
make the worksheet myself. It was frustrating to see that she didn't
take MY senior project seriously. I mean I let her be part of the
project because she needed a Service Learning Project, but I gave
her responsibilities. It's going to hurt her a lot next year.... Besides
that problem in the morning, we went as always to do the homework
help of the program. Everyone else came in a little later. Then we
read "Just a Little Bit" by Ann Thompert and completed a scale
project with objects. The idea was to predict which objects were
heavier by appearance and then to see which are heavier in
comparison. In addition to the project, I tried out discussion
questions with the children to see how they handled them, which
was actually pretty well for the most part.
This week we are finally starting projects! It is amazing to see the
effort all these parents are making to complete their projects! I
LEARNED HOW TO PLANT TODAY and I got to take home a cute
reused flower pot. It was a nice to see her know so much about her
topic. She put so much enthusiasm behind it and even created a
poster that went along with the presentation.
We went over last week's project and now this week's. The children
weren't able to finish both the discussion questions and project so
they just finished the discussion questions. I went over the plan for
next week's project and briefly over the parent night. Everyone took
part in preparing for the project again and had their responsibilities
after the meeting was over as well. I am confident that they willl
come with what I've asked of them.
Homework Help time is always my favorite time because the
children pay attention the most during that time. It is nice to see
them be attentive even though it only lasts about 40 minutes or so.
This week we completed last week's project! whoo! There was extra
time and all the children really wanted to finish their homework that
way they had free time when they got home. I agreed with them and
let them get an extra 10 minutes to do their homework. They all left
without homework and were very content with that. next week I'll just
do the book and project.
I finished the parent notice that Mrs.Alex wanted for the next class. I
had Christina look over the spanish part of the form. I fixed any
mistakes I had on that part and shared it with the teacher. I also
began working on the brochure that I wanted to give to the parents. I
asked Stefany to help me with the spanish translation as I began
planning for the Parent Night.
Another meeting where we went over and prepared for the project.
Since we are reading "If You Give a Pig a Pancake" we wil have the
children create their own pigs. We have been cutting our different
accessories and pig heads and bodies to go on as paper bag
puppets. This meeting was completely about cutting out paper. BUT
we cut out several different accessories so the children can
customize their pig to their liking.
THIS PROJECT WAS SO MUCH FUN!! We forgot some of the pig
heads but we improvised and just made copies of the pig head and
let them make whatever colored pig they wanted. Each child took a
long time to choose whatever accesories they wanted. Since they all
used too much glue, we had to hold onto the pigs until next week
because it was basically drowned with glue. They all wanted to add
more into their pigs, but I just kept them so that they could finish it
with their parents on the Parent Night.
I began planning how I wanted to have the folders to hand out to the
parents. I didn't want to overwhelm them with information so I want
to include some activities, a reading log to make sure their child
keeps up with their reading over the summer and some tips for year.
I started working on making the sheets Mrs. Alix a little more
appealing for the parents and neutral for both languages. I bought
folders and now I need to plan out which activities to go over.
Originally, I wanted to have a panel to teach parents how to
communicate with teachers and to just create a relationship with the
school.
We started organizing the folders and had 2-3 activities. Not a lot so
It wouldn't overwhelm the parents. I got the books from Books Are
Wings and organized them into a bag which I will take tomorrow.
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