Independent Component 1

LITERAL

(a)  I, Perla Villapudua, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) Ms. Aracelle    Email: aracelletan@csupomona.edu                                                                                          

(c) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As7bwGFFrkV-dDZCY05LNmJCTG02VTBNbmpFTnRHclE#gid=0 

(d) I worked for 30 hours at the Cal Poly Children Center, is a good experience. I contributed by helping the teachers and also I became to know how a teacher works. It is a very fun but at the same time a difficult job. I say this because the purpose of my independent component was to know the feeling of being a teacher. As I was with the children I notice that it is difficult because not every child is the same, not every child listen, and you as the teacher needs to gain their attention and to trust you. When the children trust you is better because they feel confident to tell you what they feel or to talk to you. Is fun because children are cute and the world with children is the most fun place to be in.

      INTERPRETIVE

My independent component was fun but hard at the same time, at the beginning was fun because I just look what the teacher did and help her. I began to read to them and wanting to gain their trust. When I gain their trust I play with them and continued to help the teacher to create some activities for the children. I ask if I could do an activity by myself for the children, I thought it was going to be easy and fun. It was very easy to decide what the activity was going to be but it wasn't easy to handle them at first, but as I started to help them it was so fun that I felt the best teacher ever. Here are four of the ones that I like the most.

 

I wrote there first letter of their name and they supposed to do the little balls of tissue paper and they glue it on it. 

APPLIED

This helps me to understand my topic better because, as the teacher I actually notice how the children are actually learning, and what skills they are or have develop so far. I was most of the time with children of 3-4 years old; I also worked with 2 and 5 years old children. I saw the difference from each year level how they develop and learn different things.  Everyone is different and learns at their own pace, as a teacher you need to be very patient because not every child is the same and also each age level is different. This helps me to understand my topic better and to know what the children develop and learn.  For example I research on Early Childhood Development and I they develop social, language, cognitive, and motor skills. Also they become to learn the abc’s, numbers, colors, etc. I wanted to know if this was true and yes, it is because in the center the children actually learn is a really good place where a child should start.