Exit Interview Questions

(1) What is your essential question?  What is the best answer to your question and why?

• My essential question is “How can preschool best help a child to succeed in early elementary school?: My best answer is by providing resources to parents that will create lifelong habits at home. This is my best answer because parents have all the control of their children. When parents get involved in their child’s education they perform better at school. Also, this answer is most vital to my essential question because when parent participate at their child school they began to know the teacher well. parents who participate on school activities are more likely that they get involve in their child’s education.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• I arrive to my best answer by my mentor, Aracelle. I asked her, "what is the most important resource for a child to succeed in early elementary school?"

She respond, “children needs their legal guardian to succeed.” Children need the role model of their parents. When parents cares about their children education they are willing to find a teachers help and help them at home by providing different activities.  

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

• One of the problems that I faced was researching , for me was a problem when I didn't had a specific question. At the beginning I started to research on early childhood education many things appear but I wasn't getting to an specific point. When I finally had my final Essential Question it was easier for me to get the information needed. Having a question was more simple for me to research in order to get answers. Another trouble that I had, was my science experiment I had to test children with fine motor skills. For me, this became a trouble because it was hard to obtain more than 15 children to test. It was hard because everytime I go to volunteer they are in nap time and when they wake up, many parents comes to pick their child. I started to do this early because I knew that I was going to face this problem. Something that I did to resolved this problem was that I told my mentor and she helped me to talk with some of the parents, if they could wait a little longer. I explained to them and they did help me.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• My mentor, Aracelle was one of the most significant source that help me, because Mrs. Aracelle allowed me to interact with the children and to look at many different's aspects that the children learn. By providing different activities the children learn and develop many skills. One of the most important thing that she help me with was to gaining the child trust, this is very important in order for the child to be willing to participate with you. Mrs. Aracelle also help me to answer many specific questions I had. Another significant source would be Roni C.Leiderman, Ph.D. and Wendy S. Masi, Ph.D. “Let’s Play and Learn Together”. Although this book is for parent it contains a lot of information that the child's develops through play.  This book is very informative and easy to follow the steps.

(5) What is your product and why?

• My product is gaining the child’s trust. By gaining the children trust is much easier for a child to learn and this help to build relationship between the child and the teacher or the child and the provider. In the beginning of my mentorship for me was difficult to interact with the children because they didn’t want to talk to me. I tried to interact with them at many different times and they would feel secure and just ran away from me. By the time they knew me and is fun for them and I to play together. My independent component 2 I volunteer at an elementary school with 1st and 2nd graders. They also seem uncomfortable about me being around them. By the time they knew me and they interacted with me. When a child trust  you they began to build communication skills because they feel confident and secure about being around that person.