Blog 16: Answer 2

1. What are the best ways a History Teacher can effectively teach his class?

2. One of the best ways a HistoryTeacher can effectively teach his class is through enthusiasm.

3. One of the best ways a History Teacher can effectively teach his class is showing your students the importance of History.

4.  A)It is important because people can at least know the basic History of there state and/or country
     B)You can appreciate all the sacrifices people have made before to get to this point in time and how the world came to be due to the past historical events.
     C)History is very important to learn, as a world leader you should know past events so that you may not repeat them.



5.Fowley, Howard. "Teaching in the 21 st Century." LA Times.com. LA Times Newspaper. 3 Mar 2010. Web. 10 Sep 2014.


6. Jason Alenko. "The Right Way to Teach History." Washington Post. The Washinton Post, 5 Nov. 2012. Web. 16 Jan. 2015.

7. With History we are the past, present, , future, good, and bad, we are history, and we continue making it everyday, its important know all of these wonderful things.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my 30 Hours I plan to take a History Course at Citrus College.

2. I will meet the 30 hours by attending the class and providing a transcript at a later date as proof that I did it.

3. This will help with my Senior Project because it will show me how History is taught on the college level and I can see how the professor teaches his class of bored college students and makes sure the material he's teaching retains in their minds. I can then take this knowledge and apply it at my mentor ship.

4 I have added a log thingy slot for my Independent Component 2 on my hours log.

Blog 14: Independant Component 1

• Literal                                                                                                     
•  - "I, Alonso Villanueva, affirm that I completed my Independant Component which                       represents 30 hours of work."                                                                                                    -
• A source that really helped me with my Independant Component was Teaching What               Really Happened: How To Avoid The Tyranny Of Textbooks And Get Students Excited           About Doing History By  Author James Loewen.                                                                         The Link to My Senior Project Hours Is To the Right                                                                 
• For my Independent Component One I assisted my mentor with her teaching of lesson               plans over the course of the Quarter. I helped plan her lessons, assisted her with helping             the students with their classwork and in-class projects, helped her out with grading papers,         and sometimes I just sat at the back of the class and observed her class like I was a student         there to see how she brings life to the classroom and makes her History Class students               engaged and focused. 
• Interpretive                                                                                                                                              
• Once or twice a week for about 2 Hours I go to Walnut Grove Intermediate School in                 West Covina. This was the middle school I actually attended. At my mentorship I am                 Teacher Assistant for Britt Linke, she is the 8th Grade Honors Social Studies Teacher                 there. Over the course of these past two months I learned a lot about how a History                     Teacher can best effectively teach their class, it has been extremely helpful with my                   Senior Project. 
  
                            The Visitor Badge I am required to wear at all times when I check in at the                                                       Front Office of the middle school.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Myself Taking Awkward Pictures of the Middle School I mentor at.
  

                                             This book was my go to and most helpful source in my project

• Applied

             -Before this component, I had no idea how to even to teach in a classroom environment. Especially an American History one, since most of the people I know list History as one of their least favorite subjects. Through this component I learned how much work it takes to be a great teacher like my mentor, the amount of work she puts in to her lesson plans and projects is amazing. She ensures each one of the activities is fun while also teaching something related to the chapter the students are on, I learned what works best when getting your students engaged and focused on what you're teaching. One method that my mentor uses a lot is to get on the students level and be their "friend". Of course there is an exception to this, if you take it too far the students will just disregard your authority and not respect you as an instructor. I learned when its appropriate to be a teacher and a friend to the students when teaching American History.

January Extra Blog Post

This past month I haven't been spending much time with my mentor Britt Linke at Walnut Grove Intermediate, I've instead been spending it with my second mentor Vince Leighton. He is the 7th grade Social Studies teacher there. I mentioned him in my 1st interview. I chose him as my 2nd mentor because as I mentioned in my interview, lots of the students there really like him. He happily agreed to be my mentor and has been really helpful with my senior project.

Blog 13-Lesson 2 Reflection

1. I am most proud of my stage presence during my presentation, many of the audience members said I was enthusiastic and had their attention during the presentation.

2.  I would give myself an AP.

3. I deserve this because I felt I did an ok job, but many of the audience members said that I rushed through my powerpoint a bit fast.

4. If I could go back, I would make my powerpoint more aesthetically pleasing.

Blog 12: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. I am doing my mentorship at Walnut Grove Intermediate School.

2. My contacts are Britt Linke and David Leighton, both History Teachers at Walnut Grove.

3. I have done 27 hours, though I still need to record it in my Mentorship hours log.

4. I have done 27 hours. Most of those consisted of grading papers, walking around the class helping students with their classwork, and working on my Independent component with my mentors.

Blog 11: Holiday Project Update

1. Yes it is important to work on your Senior Project over break because just because you have time off doesn't mean you should just put off your project. You need to use every bit of time your given wisely. However I myself did not follow this and did minimal stuff on my project over break.

2. I learned that I should have used my time wisely and should really set in to gear now and really focus on working on my Senior Project.

3. I would talk to my second mentor that I have, Mr Leighton. A lot of the students at my mentorship really like his way class and way of teaching History. I should ask hime how he does it.