Third Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to learn a second language?

2. What kind of methods are there to teach a language?

3. Would it be easier for a child or adult to learn a new language?

4. Would a bilingual person be able to learn another language faster than others who know only one language?

5. Why is it that they say that newborns to 5 yrs old can learn up to 5 different languages?

6. What does language acqusition mean in your own words?

7. What is the best way to practice a second language?

8. Is it possible to learn two languages at the same time?

9. What is better for a child? To learn from educational shows that teach a language or to be taught by someone like a teacher or parent?  Why?

10. Is it true that bilingual people know the rules better to their second language?

Self Refection

1. Right now i think im at an AP but almost there to a P.
2. I feel that I have done well on my research because I try to look for something new each time as in my topic but different views in an article.
3. Presenting because I know what to say but then somehow when I present or when it gets close to my turn I freak out. Then I dont know what to say and just keep going on with one thing and never finish the rest.

Science Fair Proposal

1. If children,ages 4-6, are taught the alphabet then bilingual children will know the alphabet with higher accuracy than other children.
2. dependent: the % accuracy of the alphabet ; independent: that the child understands the language ; control: the children ages 4-6  
3. For my eq I wrote: what is the best way to learn a second language? I think this science experiment connects with my eq because im trying to see how well the kids learn a second language. Im also seeing who does well, the bilingual or monolingual child.
4. I plan on having two groups one monolingual and the other bilingual but at seperate times I will test the groups. first of all I just want to go over the spanish alphabet, i will just explain the 26 letters and leave the extra out,so they can get a taste of it. Then i will test with a couple note cards a letter of the alphabet  to see if they remember or not. I will do the same for both 3 times at different days to see if the kids still remember.
5. Behavioral Science

What I Learned So Far

1. I've leaned that there are ways of teaching. The main 3 are visual, auditory, and hands on. And this not only works for kindergarten, it works for other people too. I also learned how to understand the teacher is the facilitator and how it works.
2.http://naseniorproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/defining-essential-question.html on #2 and #3 I talk about the methods which is the ways of teaching
3. http://www.wakeforestmontessori.com/matching-kindergartners-teaching- styles/
http://www.jobbankusa.com/career_employment/teachers_preschool_kindergarten_elementary_middle_secondary/job_descriptions_definitions_roles_responsibility.html
This reasearch hepled me understand what the style of teaching were and how to be a good teacher (facilitator). It also made me understand that you have to be patient in doing this.

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

1. I plan to do my service learning hours at Kellogg Polytechnic Elementary School with Ms. Watshke and her kindergarten class.
2. I plan to do 5 hours at least for each week and if i can do more then I will. But I also dont want to rush myself so my max for each week will be 5 hrs.
3. Well my service learning works really well because im trying to find the best ways to teach kindergarten by observing and helping out the teacher.

Defining the Essential Question

1.  What is the best way to teach kindergarten?
2. When I mean best way i think about the styles and methood's the teacher's use to teach a class. And teach meaning what do they do to grab the kids attention so they can be listening and understanding the concept.
3. I think an answer would be discipline because my interview said that she read a book talking about that and instead of just discipline all the time it should be the opposite so the child can feel good and I think will give a positive atiutude towards learning. Another answer would be methoods because not all the kids are the same and each one learns in a different way.
4. Well so far it's been the person I interviewed Ms.Watschke because she told me about 2 books regarding discipline and how to get children to focus (which I will read). Also what she told me to refer to my past and remember what was it was like when I entered kindergarten to get a better understanding.

Second Interview Questions

1. What got you interested in this field?
2. What school(s) have you teached at and are they different from others?
3. When doing your credentials,was there something that stood out to you?
4. What  was your experience like when you were in kindergarten? Is it different from now?
5. Do you do the same thing each year or do you mix it up a bit?