Advisory Meeting #2

Content:

What is the best way for a middle school math teacher to maximize a female student's score on the California Math Test?

Answer #2: A teacher can help a struggling student by creating a lesson plan that meet the student's needs.

-Students have different studying methods. Ex. designing a study guide for the student

-What does the student want to achieve? Ex. Personal goals and objectives
-Most struggling students need to go over lessons so they dont fall behind. Ex. Tutoring

Teachers should see what the students needs are and adapt to them by creating a personalized lesson plan based on their needs. 

Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
      For my 30 hours I will be tutoring a group of 6th grade students who are currently struggling with math. I talked to my mentor and he said that he would look at the student's grades and he would give me a list of names of those who have the lowest grades in math. Parents will be notified that their children will be receiving tutoring afterschool, hopefully I can tutor them twice a week. 
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
      I will take a picture of the log that I have at Cortez where I have to record the time I go in and the time I go out. 
3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
     This will help me explore my topic more in depth because now I will interact with the students more and I will have to create lesson plans and study guides so that they can improve their grades. I will have to dedicate alot of time to this because I am going to have to see each student's strenghts and weaknesses and I am going to have to adapt to each one of them. 
4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.

Independent Component 1

• Literal: 
• (a) I, Isabel Vazquez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. 
• (b) The people who helped me complete my independent component were my mentor Peter Rainville and Valeria de La Peña. They are both teachers who work at Cortez Mathematics and Science Magnet School. 
• (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours) Post it next to your mentorship log. 
• (d) In my independent component I was able to do a variety of things. First of all in my mentor's 6th grade class I was able to help students with a iMovie project that they were working on for Math and I also helped with others in-class assignments. In Ms. de La Peña's 1st grade classroom I helped those students who were behind with their work or who were struggling. I also tested some of them on their vocabulary, but I mostly helped the teacher by organizing the student's work and putting them in folders. 
• Interpretive:

• I was able to obtain a picture of the log that I keep in Cortez which indicates the time I go in and the time I get out but it only shows from January until now. 
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• Applied: 
• The independent component helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because when I used to do community service at Cortez with other teachers I didn't work with the students as much. I would usually help the teachers by organizing papers, grading, or doing copies. However, now I was able to interact with the students and observe the different personalities and attitudes of the students and how the level of enthusiasm changes from elementary to middle school. For example, in the first grade classroom all the students are always participating and they are really eager to learn new things. In the 6th grade classroom, the students have to be called on so they can participate and most students are always off task and they whine about everything. I was able to observe the needs of those 
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