Rizza Marie P.
North house

Topic: Health Care: Activity coordinator
Essential Question: What is the most important skill of a successful elder care activity coordinator ?


Thursday, May 31, 2012

Blog # 27: Self Reflection

Self Reflection: 

(1) Positive Statement:  
What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
                   -The activities that I have for my 2hr presentation, I-search/Working Bibliography, and my service learning because the activities that I have on my 2hr help me explain more about my answers and how it relates back to my E.Q. Also, my I-search/Working Bibliography helped me back up all the things that I presented on my 2hr. And lastly, to be able to do service learning on the facility helped me
(2) Questions to Consider
      What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)? Why?
AE            P+/P            AP            CR            NC
                 - I looked at the 2hr presentation and I did all of the requirements for P and I think I did a little bit over than what's on the rubric which is why I will give myself at least P+/P for it. I also ask some of the students that watched my presentation and they said that they had fun and they learned from my presentation helping elderly patients. They never said that it was boring, they actually find it interesting and fun. That's why I feel accomplished.
      What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?
AE             P            AP            CR            NC
                  - I deserve at least P on my senior project because I did all the components on time and I actually did the work. I've never been late in submission and I did my best to meet all  the P requirements.

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
                  - Service learning, Working Bibliography, and I-search worked a lot. It helped me keep track of all my research and my journey all throughout senior year. On the other hand, service learning help me observe and actually experience what our topic is all about. I got to explore an elderly facility because of it. And it did change my point of view of the elderly patients. Though it took me a long time to understand the purpose of 3 column chart, it did help me organize my answers for my E.Q. Science fair is also helpful because it gives you an science perspective of your topic/issue.

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?
                  - Independent component should only be one. I didn't see the point of having two independent components. The second component wasn't as helpful as service learning or research. The interviews wasn't as effective as its suppose to be. Two hour house only meets few times thus making it useless because you can't get guidance on your project with meeting only once or twice a month to prepare for 2 hour presentation. The exit interview should happen right after the students established their second answers so that in case that the EQ needs to change or answers itself, then students have time to change their answers or E.Q. without procrastinating (which usually affects their presentation); putting exit interview a week before 2hour presentations isn't helpful considering that most flaws weren't seen until the exit itself. Either do that or have at least 2 teachers to check on each students senior project so the flaw can be seen right away.
 
(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples. 
                   - I would definitely say that at somehow it will help me in my future. For example, service learning helped me experience working in an rehab facility. In the rehab facility I learned to make connections and to be open minded and understanding to the patients. The 2 hour presentation helped me become a better presenter. Senior project also guided me to which path in the future I can take. For example, working in a rehab facility, I now know how to adapt better on busy medical field environment. I can manage to go with the flow. More research also gives you a better product. For example, my science fair  experiment, after putting a lot of research and experiment, the lab report that I wrote was almost like a college paper which is good because it will be easier for me to write reports once I get into college. (which is something that I'm really thankful for)
 

Friday, May 18, 2012

Blog #26: 2-Hour Presentation Lesson Plan

 2-Hour Presentation Plan:

 here's the link:  2hr draft link
(note: I forgot to copy my new EQ that's why the E.Q. part was not complete.)

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Blog # 25: Service Learning


Content:
    Literal
-      Log of specific hours : 50 hrs log
 
-    Description of work: BINGO, serving coffee, doing manicure (to be able to talk casually with patients especially if  they are new to the facility, decorating the activities room, suggesting events, listening to patients and talking to them, planning what kind of activity we should do for next time, talking to other staffs (CNA's, LVN's, RN's) to keep up with the patients condition.

-     Gabriel Olea
     250 W. Artesia Street, Pomona, CA, 91768
     (909)-623-7100  [work number]
     (909)-235-0413  [cellphone number]

    Interpretive
     - I learned to be more social with other people. I get to understand the feelings of elderly more than I used to before. And I realized that elderly care activity coordinator is a fun job (based from my experience) even though there are some point that it gets so busy that you don't know what to do first but then again that's in every job so I believe that it helped me become a little bit competitive too working wise.
 
   Applied
    - Service learning helps me figure out which skills activity coordinator needs to become a successful. Like for my first answer I said effective communication because I need to listen and talk to the patients in able for me to do the job. And for my second answer I said know the patients because if you don't know them, then you won't be able to connect to them and it may affect the way you treat the patients. Even my last answer which is to help senior patients using activities is because of what I always observed from activities. I see that most of the activities we do also helps the patients improve their memory and cope up with the surroundings.