Second Interview Questions

1. How and why did you get into teaching? So did you always want to be a teacher or did you have someone introduce you to the idea?
2. What college did you go to, in order to get your teaching credentials? Do you think everything you learned there is still accurate?
3. When you were studying to become a teacher did you learn about the multiple intelligence theory? If so how did you feel about the different intelligences? (Have a brief overview of the topic and each of the suggested intelligences to discuss.)
4. Where did you learn about the Idea of Art in Education, or Art Integration? Was it taught to you in college? How do you feel about using in schools.
5. How do you feel about the difference of how you learned in lets say middle school differs greatly to that of middle school students today? Or do you think that it differs little? Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

Problem Statement

 Blog: #5

Content:

1. My Senior Project is on Art Integration, the processes of using art as a tool in schools to help teach other subjects like math, science, etc....
2. One problem my topic has, is the fact that most teachers fear that they will be unable to get through and teach all the needed material. In most cases they can easily get through the material. Once the problem is solved, I will do my best to help the teachers, at the school I am volunteering at, to teach the students.
3. Another problem with my topic is that many teachers don't understand how to incorporate art in their curriculum. Once we are able to solve this I not only will I be able to help the school I am working at but also other schools in the district. I could even help schools in other districts.

Working EQ

1. The Pentagon:
   Well during my summer mentorship, while I was helping to set up a teacher's class room I was able to understand and see how a classroom is put together. Seeing this helps me because by seeing how the classroom is put together I can have a better understanding of how it will work. Like if the classroom has a lot of art on the walls I can tell the class may have art, while if it has some art on the walls but the rest is blank, I can tell the teacher is one to teach there students using art and to also hang it up to show the world.
2. EQ Content:
   I learned from my interview that art, or any form of expression, is an important tool, not just to free oneself from becoming bored but also to help a student learn something in a way thats fun for them. Because everyone is different. They have their very own likes and dislikes. These things give the student their own understanding of the world and the thoughts and ideas in it. So if a person, mainly a teacher, uses what that person likes as a sort of roseta stone to teach that student about a core subject they will find that the student is smarter than even thay think of themselves.
3. What has work for me so far in my senior project experience would have to be the amout of book research that I am able to find and use. There are tons of books out there about teaching and using art as a tool to teach. A lot more than I thought there was going to be.
4. The only thing I can think of that hasn't worked well so far would have to be the amount of research online. I mean there are plenty of blurbs, but there are not a lot of good articles about this subject out there on the internet.
5. Finding Value:

• What is the best art form to use in schools?
  How can we as the nation of the United States start getting test scores up by using art integration?
  How can best help younger and maybe even older students learn and express themselves at the same time, there for creating more interest in going to public school and higher education?
• I hope to have a better understanding of what gets students interested in schools again, and then use those techniques in my future career camp.
• I would like to talk to an artist like Ms. Hodapp said (in my first interview) and get their take on the subject. I would also like to ask for their personal stories and information on what its like to be an artistic soul, and how to put that artistic need to create into other subjects.

Interview Preparation

Content:
1. Who do you plan to interview? Why? 

• I plan to interview Ms. Hodapp from Las Palmas Middle School because she is a teacher who enjoys using art integration in her class room to help teach other subjects like Math, Science, etc.... every day.

2. You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions do you plan to ask?

 In addition to the 5 questions, given to me by the senior team, to ask during my first interview I plan to ask ......

• How do you feel about extra curricular programs, like art, being cut from schools? Why?
• Do you feel that using art as a teaching tool will help students understand other subjects such as Science, Math, History, and English? Why?
• What types of art forms do you feel will have the best impact on the student body? Why? (Example illustration, sculpting, etc...)
• In what subject do you think that the use of art will have the greatest effect on a students ability to learn? Why?
• Do you believe the age of a student will change the effect art has on that student? (Will a younger student lets say, in 6^th grade learn more from a subject using art than a student in 11^th grade.) Why?

Topic Choice

Content

a. What is your topic and why?

• My Topic is Art and its effects on how children and teens learn certain subjects like Math, History, etc..... The reason I chose this topic is because it involved two things I truly love to do, Art and Teaching.

b. And what do you hope to accomplish this year with this topic (connecting your answer to each of the 4 ESLRs)

• iPoly Citizen: I plan to use the presentation and the communication skills I have learned from I Poly to not only improve them but to perfect them. By doing this during my volunteers hours I hope that my final presentation will be one of my best.
• Effective Communicator: During my senior year I plan to write down every thing critical that my mentors says and recording my interviews with my mentors so I can review what they say and make sure I understand what they say and if there is something I do not understand I will be able to look back at the notes I have taken and ask them to clarify at any time they are available to answer my extra questions. This will make me more effective as a learner because I will not just let all the information go in one year and out the other, I will be physically writing things down and reviewing it along with creating extra questions to make sure I understand what my mentor says.
• Effective Learner: I plan to write down and brain storm any questions I come up with at any available time so I will have plenty of questions for my interviews. I will also write down any important tips my teacher gives me so that I can look back on them later in the year. This will make me a more effective learner because I will not only be listening to what the person says but I can also look back on them and retain any information given I will need, and there is sure to be plenty for me to review.
• Effective User of Technology: I plan to use my laptop not just for a power point but to also show how to draw certain things to students. I will plug my laptop in to a projector and I will use one of the many art programs to help explain certain things. This will make me a more effective user of technology because I will not be using technology at the end during my presentation, I will be using it all through out the hole senior project.

Blog 1: Summer Mentorship Component

Assignment

    Literal (Know)

·Wednesday August 15, 2012 Started 9:30a.m. to 1:00p.m. Total of 3 and a half hours

Thursday August 16, 2012 Started 9:30a.m. to 1:00p.m. Total of 3 and a half hours

Friday August 17, 2012 Started 9:30a.m. to 12:30p.m. Total of 3 hours

• All three days of my summer mentoring were spent helping a teacher at Las Palmas Middle school set up their classroom for the new school year. I did things like organizing cabinets, and putting together desk buckets, to be used by students for pencils pens and other need school supplies. I also sorted through papers, folders, drawers looking for unwanted worksheets and paper to make room for new ones. I also asked the teachers I saw, certain questions on how they like to teach their students and if they felt art was a great teaching tool. 

·       Heidi Clauss Htcme1@gmail.com (Please email does not want phone # online)

    Literal (Need to know)   

• What kind of things or tools do you use to teach your students?
• What is your take on using art in the classroom to help teach a subject?
• How do you feel about after school programs like art and music getting cut back or completely pulled from schools?
• Do you know of any other teachers who use art to teach their students, and if so do you know how they feel about it?

   Interpretive

     The most important thing I gained from this experience is that art is a great way to help people and children learn curtain things and subjects. Like in science art can help a student learn about Photosynthesis having them draw a flower and label important parts and what makes them important so they can get an idea of what the processes looks like. Or in history it would help to not only write an essay on what happened during a great battle but to also draw a picture of what they think the battle may have looked like.

   Applied

     This summer mentorship helped me pick a good topic by showing me how art, something I truly love and care about, can help others learn in a fun way .