EXTRA UNDERSTANDING POST

Hey, so this post is for extra understanding of my answers. I put it under a new label called understanding. Enjoy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ncIbFpMZJDa1TA0Ck3BF9kMNFjXHajH_LfYgArd4Vk/edit

Blog 24: Exit Interview Questions

Exit Interview break down

1. What is your essential question?  What is the best answer to your question and why?
   

EQ: “What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school?”

Best Answer: #4 The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to create art integrated activities using a basic understanding of art integration, each individual classes, pedagogy, and what you are teaching.

I chose this for my answer because it takes into account multiple things that my research said was important for a student's learning ability.

-A Mind at a Time by ….Melvin Levine (Back round on how to teach and the differences between students.)

-ARTSEDGE: What Is Arts Integration? …. Kennedy Center (Great back round and information on what art integration is)

2. What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
   

In order to arrive to at this final answer, I went through 3 different answers:

Answer 1; The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a middle school class is to improve the first and/or second learning experiences by creating fun interactive learning experiences.

While this answer is important and considers the timing of when you introduce the art integrated activities you still need the basic knowledge to create the activities.

-Heidi Clauss/ “Picture This”article by Hilary Oswald

Answer 2; The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to use art integrated activities in a stable, encouraging, sanitary, and creative learning environment.

If a child feels unsafe they are going to not want to participate in the different activities no matter how interesting. But while this is an important answer to consider, when compared to my best answer I noticed that my best answer was better tailored to my essential question leaving this answer more suited to by my extra note

-Classroom Environment | Classroom Quality Standards.... NC State University & the book “A Mind at a Time” Some of the chapters go into what happens when a child is put down or puts themselves down

Answer 3: The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to have a balance of art and content.

When looking at this answer compared to my best answer I realized that an educator will be unable create a balance between the art and content in their activities if they don't have that basic understanding that my best answer gives

-Heidi Clauss

3. What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
   

Some problems I faced during this project are as followed:

-Trying to find a good place to mentor at till I was old enough to work with my mentors at Las Palmas middle school.

To resolve this problem I had to contact different schools and teachers in the San Dimas school district. Luckily I had a neighbor who was in the district who was able to get me in touch with Mr. Jacobs a teacher at Lone Hill, giving me a place where I could work n a classroom environment and see the dynamics of a different environment other that the ones at Las Palmas.

Another major problem I faced was during the time I was reading my print sources like Cognitive Psychology and Instruction. There were a lot of things that were difficult to understand. And with the chapters all being extremely long it was difficult to say focused and understand what they were saying. Luckily since these were books my mentor had given me and books she had already read she understood much of what the chapters were saying. That plus many of the more difficult books had summaries at the end of each chapter or even a glossary at the end of the book I was able to understand much of what each chapter was talking about.

EX: Lexical Network a memory network in which the names of concepts are stored

4. What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
   

The Two most significant sources are....

-ARTSEDGE: What Is Arts Integration? From the Kennedy Center, because it gave me a more in depth definition into what art integration is and it lead me to different sources that I could use. It also played an important role in backing up my best answer

-“A Mind at a time” written by Melvin Levine because it gave me a great look into how a student learns, making it so I could see where I could use art integration to improve a child's learning.

5. What is your product and why?
   

My product for my senior project is that I have gained a better understanding of how to integrate things that a person may not usually enjoy with things they would. I will be able to use this in the future when I build my career camp. I will be able to take the things a student likes and show them how to integrate it with the future careers.

I mostly learned this from my mentor-ship with Heidi Clauss and my other two best sources

Title: 2014 Interview

1.  Who did you interview and what house are they in?

Garrett Holmes, South House

2.  What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

Garrett is planing on doing something in the medical field of nursing, he already has a contact who may be able to help him out. I made sure to inform him that if he really wishes to work in this field for his project then he should start looking for other options now because his contact may fall through and if he does it takes a long time to get into that field from what I have heard.

3.  What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship experience?
Garrett is going to see if he can assist or shadow a doctor over the summer for his 10 hours of mentorship.

4.  What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hour presentations?
Garrett hopes to see seniors that don't just surround their project on their power points for their senior project, he also hopes to see some interesting activities that will engage him.

5.  What questions do you have that I can answer about senior year or senior project (or what additional information did you tell them about senior year or senior project)?

Garrett had questions on what kind of smaller project will he have to complete for senior year other than the two hour presentation, so I enforced him on all the other projects like the science component and the I-search paper.

Blog 22: 3-Column Chart

Okay, here is the link to my 3-Column Chart. If there are any problems let me know. : )

Blog 21: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) I, Catherine Clauss, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Mentors Heidi Clauss, and Susan Hodapp along with my Picture This: Using Photography to Teach Science, Math, and Writing article written by Hillary Oswald.

(c) Click Here For log

(d) For this independent component I worked with different groups of students complete a variety of technological/ art integrated based assignments.

Assignment 1: Getting used to the Editing Program. Since we had to complete these assignments in class my mentor Heidi Clauss and I felt it was necessary for students to get used to working with the video editing program they would be using so they could complete the other assignments. So for this assignment they were give various Movie trailers to pick from and were told to edit the sound and picture however they wished. Since the purpose of this assignment was to gain an understanding of how to enter different sound effects and music into the video we did not worry too much about them giving us amazing work we just wanted to be sure that they understood how to do it.

Assignment 2: Digital Photo Poem. For this assignment students were given a poem and were told to find pictures online that would represent the different parts of the poem. Then after finding all the pictures they needed they were required to edit all the pictures together along with a voice over made by the students (which stated the poem).

Assignment 3: Digital Photo Mesopotamia rap. For this assignment students were given a song that explained different things about a history lesson about Mesopotamia, and the students had to edit pictures they found online along with the music.

Assignment 4: Stop Motion Films. PSA For this assignment Students had to create their own stop motion/ claymation films that expressed a problem. So Claymation PSA. This helped students prepare for the second Claymation assignment

Assignment 5: Stop Motion Films. Math Problems For this assignment students worked in groups to create their own stop motion/ claymation films that explained the process to solve a math problem n a way so others could watch and then understand what they did. They started by writing a script then creating their scenes and characters with clay and toys, then they took pictures of their sets and props in different positions. They uploaded all of the pictures on to a computer so they could edit it and added voice over explanations along with the edited clips.

INTERPRETIVE
With the world changing everyday, becoming more advanced and technological based, art integration needs to find ways to change along with them. To be able to create art integrated activities that can also use technology is a step forward for art integration. For this component I was able to not only help put these activities together I was also able to help act them out and see the effects they have on the student that perform them. When asked how they felt about these activities, they said they enjoyed the activities. For the student's who did the Digital Photo Poem assignment they said they that by trying to find pictures that would describe the poems they gained a better understanding of what the poems were saying. And fro the students who completed the stop motion films said that by having to think of a way to explain different math problems to other people through pictures was a difficult task but would probably help them in the long run.

Assignment 1: Getting used to the Editing Program. EXAMPLES

Assignment 2: Digital Photo Poem. EXAMPLES

Assignment 3: Digital Photo Mesopotamia rap. EXAMPLES

Assignment 4: Stop Motion Films. PSA EXAMPLES

Assignment 5: Stop Motion Films. Math Problems EXAMPLES
There are examples for this project but they did not want to transfer. I will post them when  I get the chance. In the meantime please enjoy the other videos.

EXTRA- So this little film was just an extra one done by one of the students during a back to school night at the school. He worked really hard on it and its kinda cute and funny. Just thought you guys would like to see XD.

APPLIED

This independent component helped me with my senior project by giving me evidence to support most of my essential question's answers. Like my first answer, “The best way to use art as a teaching tool in a middle school class is to improve the first and/or second learning experiences by creating fun interactive learning experiences.” For this answer I needed to make sure that fun interactive/ hands on learning experiences could be created and that the student's who participated in these activities thought so as well. (Which they did. They thought they had fun and definitely believed they learned something from these activities)

Blog 20: Three Column Chart First Draft

Here is the link to the beginnings of my 3 column chart, and what Ogden said to do of it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toLAk7SZygcr_Mkuz56EBGOqNtxOYfwbL1xi2y4Xcgs/edit

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1.  What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project? 

I believe I have excelled most with the Effective communicator ESLR.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

I believe I have excelled most with the Effective communicator ESLR with my senior project because in order to successfully use art integration you must not only be able to present you point to students but must make room to take the advice of the students and other teachers to improve your activities/ lessons so you have the perfect balance for your activities.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior project to support your claim (evidence is a photo of something you are doing, photo of something you made, etc).

While working on my independent component I worked closely with my mentors to create fun activities that would help teach important core lessons to students. But while creating them I needed to pay close attention to my mentor and their thoughts on the activities because they are professionals in this field and know what student's like and what some of the best ways to teach them while also giving them something fun and creative to do. Listening to them can only help improve my activities.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/1QanbpshJ60YHxjcw8xruHvN1fZoOxdXNLCzUicUnDr6qI7j3KOlBj62M1F_6/edit?usp=sharing