Internship Day 4

Answer the following questions to help develop your project:

1. What academic skills could you use on the job?
My reading, math, and writing skills are defiantly something that I can use on the job. My internship is working with kids that are much younger than me, Which puts me at a academic advantage.

2. What forms of collaboration could you use in a project?
I don't exactly understand this question. So I'm confused on how to answer it.

3. What technical skills can you use at your internship?
There aren't a lot of technical skills that I can use. I can use more academic skills because of the type of internship I am interning at. 

4. What new things can you learn while working at your site?

I am starting to pick up on small Spanish words, That I can say when the kids and parents don't understand. Ex. book and back pack homework and teacher.  I am also learning how to contain students who have certain learning disabilities and also some who are too advanced to control them selves in a lower level working enviorment. 

5. How can you exhibit, showcase or otherwise share your work?

I have been keeping a folder, with all of the different books, worksheets, and activities that I work with the kids with. I have also been snapping pictures and my mentor has agreed to take some photos of me. Which would give me two different forms of evidence and visual examples for when I am talking. 

6. How can your work or your skills & abilities help your company or organization?

I think that my work skills will help my program maybe run a little smoother than it is normally ran. Since the budget cut backs there has been 2 kinder garden teachers laid off which adds more kids to the other classes than there normally use to handling. With me helping the kids can get a better advantage at getting there proper dose of knowledge  and it also helps my mentor get a better chance at working with the lower students that need the extra help. 

Internship Day 3.

Projects should be coherent collections of work samples and/or work experiences that are relevant and meaningful to both you and your company.
Answer these questions to get started:

1. What skills would you like to develop at your site?
Teaching skills, patience and able to take control of any situation.

2. What interests do you have regarding the work done at your site?
I think that teaching and working with kinder garden students would be a good way to practiced all of the skills that I have listed above. If you can control and keep the interest of 4-6 5year old students than you can pretty much control and focus a full group of adults. I am also working with different learning leveled kids which would help me learn skills for when I have to deal with people in a work enviorment who aren't necessarily at the same speed as me.

3. What needs can you address (needs your mentor has, your company has, etc.) based on your skills and interests?

I am pretty good at doing a list of task in under the time I am giving, I am known to work pretty efficiently and well with taking charge and lending a helping hand.I can also help things run a little smoother in the class room. There are 25 kids in the class at one time and I noticed that sometimes my mentor gets overwhelm with questions and comments the students through at her. When I am there I am another person that they can talk to and use for comments etc.

Internship: Day two

I woke up later than normal, My mom showed me a alternate way to get to my internship. I arrived a few minutes early which gave me time to talk to my mentor about today's plan. Today is going to be a little different from my first day because it is a regular day. However it seems to e a fun exciting day filled with many fun activities. For lunch I have bought some leftovers from home, a bag of chips a soda and some fruit. Just as I aspected the day went well, I am enjoying my internship, the kids and also my mentor.

What have you actively done to start off on the right note?

I think that just being on time, I have even arrived some days earlier than my expected time that way we could prepare for the day ahead.

What have you actively done to create interesting opportunities for yourself?

I have opened up for conversations, when I am in a place that is somewhat out of my comfort zone I tend to stick to myself. In order to get the full effect of the work place and a better feel for my mentor I had to open myself up.

What have you actively done to advance the interests of your mentor and/or site?

I have met different staff members and I have been interacting with more than just my mentor while I am at my internship.

What can you do in the immediate future to improve yourself and your experience in the above areas?
I think being more always on test by myself than wait for her to tell me what she would like for me to do. I am always on task but I tend to finish my work early so I am left waiting for a new one.

Blog 1: Internship first day.

Overall my first day of internship went well, I woke up later than usual which was lovely. The hardest part of my day was pretty much finding out what to wear, I didn't wanna be to much over dressed but i didn't wanna be under dressed either. I ate Jack and the Box for breakfast and was nice and full. Charley was there to make sure that everything went smoothly. I went to my mentors class room and we had a mini meeting about how the whole day was pretty much going to go. It was a minimum schedule so we had more kids than we would normally have in one day. each class was nice my favorite was the morning class. My job was to assist Maria and to help some of the students in class that didn't pick up things as well as some of the other students. I ate lunch in the teachers lounge, I didn't know what to expect so I brought my own lunch. Lunch is normally about 40Min's and I think I will spend it in the teachers lounge more often because it was extremely relaxing. School for them was over at 1:05 and once the kids left , Maria had prep so I helped her fix her book library organize label and fix the books. after that we chatted got to know each other a little better and we figured out a project that I could do for my presentation.
I am very happy with how my day went, but I was more than ready to leave when 3:00pm came.

Internship Day One:

My workspace is basically anywhere in the classroom, when I'm working with the kids I'm normally walking around, and when I'm doing separate work then i set back at Maria's desk and do my work there.

The photo to the left is a picture of the playground where the kids line up at in the morning. Alot of time is spent on the playground. they have a 15min recess and they have a 40 min lunch while and they get to play on the playground. something that struck me was that I got a chance to bong with the kids during playtime one girl actually took my hand to come and play hop scotch with you so it was something that was shocking to me.







Something that was interesting to me is the technology that the classroom had. My mentor had a projector, a portable mic that hung around her neck and sound systems through out the class room. They also had a set of 8 apple laptops that the kids would use four at a time.
It was interesting because they were so young but are learning how to use modern technology.







My job at my internship is to help the kids with any questions and concerns that they have.
I would walk around when they had work sheet time, I helped them fix any mistakes that they had. I also had a list of students that needed help with sounding out the letters in certain words so I went through a book
with them and made sure they new all of the words in the book.







The person to the left is my mentor, her name is Maria. Shes wearing the normal attire for teachers at my internship. She dresses a step up from the other staff from what I have seen but everything is pretty much casual.

Honors Blog 4

Honors: A Personal History
Please complete all of the following:
1. Discuss your successes as an honors student this past semester.
As a honors student it has improved my writing skills significantly. By doing the extra articles and essays and also having harder expectations has improved my writing in humanities and also in other classrooms as well. It has also helped me keep me busy and working efficiently to make sure I keep up with due dates.It also helped me work harder than I usually did because I wanted my end result to be a good a good grade.

2. Discuss what you might have done differently if you do this past semester of honors over again.
I would most likely just make sure I have the books/ novels I need for my essays in advance so I can began reading them as soon as i can to give me more time for actually writing part of my essays. I would also get my essays critiqued before I turn them in for a final draft because that seemed to be my biggest problem, small minor mistakes that could have been fixed.

3. Discuss your goals for honors in the second semester.
Next semester in honors I would like to get through alot of my work earlier than when it is actually due because alot of the work and assignment this year were the same as or very close to the regular assignment due dates in his regular class, So it was easy to fall behind on some of the assignments if I didn't have them complete or half way done.

4. If you could choose any parts of literature and history for our honors work, what would you pick and why?
I really like to learn about World War I and II because three's alot of important things that went on during these periods that are always over looked. I would also like to learn more about the roaming twenties because it was a interesting time period but we only went briefly into it, not so much as in dept as I would have liked. Another period that seems pretty interesting to learn about is The Civil rights movement and the different laws that were changed during that time period and what makes them significant.

Into thin Air

Jasmine Jackson

Passion, loyalty, self motivation and strength are all emotional and mental qualities one would need to successfully climb Mount Everest, however, some of these qualities can possibly lead to disaster. Passion leads to making unwise decisions while loyalty can prevent you from making good personal decisions, putting forth strength and self-motivation for success.

Passion is a very important mental and emotional quality to have when climbing up Mount Everest, without passion about what you are doing it would be hard for you to overcome road bumps in the trip. Even though passion is something that one would need to successfully climb Mount Everest it could also be the thing that leads you to Disaster.
Andy Harris was a guide on the Mount Everest trip.

He is seen to be very passionate about his climbing and about his job. The book says that he couldn’t resist climbing up the mountain, When other guides couldn’t guide up the hill he volunteers his service. Andy’s passion is somewhat one of the things that have leaded him to successfully climb previous mountains before; it was also the one thing that could have leaded him to disaster, and death. In the book Andy falls off the mountain and dies. I feel that his passion lead him to make an unwise and unsafe design as to climbing the dangerous side of the mountain leading him to fall off and die.

Rob hall was one of the tour guides that lead the group up Mount Everest. In the book rob s portrayed as a respectable passionate and loyal guide. Many parts of the book have showed theses qualities are what have helped him successful lead others up the mountain before. Although the have helped him previously his loyalty begins to lead him to disaster. Rob and client Doug Hansen got stuck on the top of Mount Everest. Doug begins to run out of oxygen and Rob refuses to leave him there.

On there way down the mountain they both run out of oxygen, Doug dies from lack of oxygen, and Rob slips into unconsciousness and eventually dies. Rob would have made it down the mountain alive if he would have left his client but because of his loyalty he was prevented from making a good personal decision that would have lead him to success rather than disaster.

Beck Weathers was a client who paid to climb up Mount Everest. He was a doctor who had recently fallen in love with climbing. Beck displays strength, bravery, self motivation and determination through out the book. After becks teammates leave him for death, he gains enough strength to try and make it down the mountain he finds another group and camps the night with them. Weathers loose his sleeping bags and gets frost bite on his cheeks and nose.




Because of Becks strength and self motivation he never gave up hope and successfully made it to the bottom of the mountain where doctors told him he had the worst case of frost bite they have seen. Weathers is seen to have passion about climbing and also seemed to be somewhat loyal but when it came down to it he had self motivation which helped him to success.

In the beginning pages of the book the author explains that it is important for you to trust the people that you are climbing the mountain with. But in the book it also shows that if you don’t look after yourself than you will be the one who lead to disaster rather than success is. The characters in the book that died were the ones who looked after others and were very loyal and unselfishness towards the team was the ones who were lead downhill.

Andy and Rob were more loyal to his clients rather than themselves. They were also passionate about there job as guides which lead them to make unwise decisions. Beck weathers was passionate about climbing but his passion was over powered by strength and self motivation for success. Passion and Loyalty are two important emotional and mental qualities that are important for one to have when climbing Mount Everest, but without self motivation and strength then they can lead you to disaster.