Independent Component 1

Literal
  I completed my independent component byworking with kids in a program called Think Together. What I mainly did was to help the children with any of their needs. Such as helping them with their homework, making sure they are respecting others, and to make them feel welcomed. This helps me because it's helping me understand the different personaities.

Interpretive
I go every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. From 2:00pm -7:00pm making it 15 hours a week. The valunteers and I help the students/children with  their needs and most important show them support.

Applied
One day at service learning one of their activities was to write in their journal about what they want to do when they grow up. Some of the childrens essays were so well written but their was this one child that had me worried. He wrote about how he wanted to kill/make people suffer when he grows up. I had to report this to the mannager and to his parents. We eventually had a meeting with the child, his parents, the mannager and I. The father then asked why did he write this. The kid replied it was because he need to get revenge.
This made me see that not all children are going to have the same personalities and that I need to be prepared for what comes. At first i thought it was becaouse the parents were neglecting him or were maybe abusing him. This child was actually adopted and his privious parents neglected him.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What's the difference between working in a field that that involves children and a job that doesn't?

2. What Does it mean to be a counselor?

3. What type of classes do you need to get into your position?

4. What type of qualities separate a counselor from a person in your position?

6. What is one thing that you do to ensure that you students succeed?

7.Which qualities do you believe is more important?

8. How do you mentally prepare a student to succeed?

9. Do you hold the same standards/ respect for each student? 
10. In your past experiences, does a person's body language, personality reflect on the type of problem he/she is facing? Why or why not?

11. Over the year do you believe there have been more or fewer amounts of people in need of help?

12. When you where counselor?

13. What's a mistake a counselor can make when helping a student?

14. If you have a student that has gone through something savior. How would you help them to get over it?

15. Have you ever had students that are going through abuse? What do you do?

16.  How did you make a student open up to you?

17. Who is more likely to cooperate the most? Children, teen, adults?

18. What do you think is the most rewarding part of your job?

19. Best way to approach a child?

20. What's something you don't like about your job?

Service Learning

1. In Buena Vista Arts-Integrated elementary school as the think together program.
2. My contact is Rupa Patel-site coordinator, address- 5685 San Bernardino st. Montclair, CA 91763, email- buenavista@thinktogether.org
3.  During my service learning hours I will be working with children age 5-15, each of them have different personality, I was in charge of making sure they were finishing their work and been respectful, responsible, and safe. After their snack time they go inside to do their homework and once they needed help I would help them out and also play with them when it was play time. So far, its been good experiencing and spending time with the children.
4. Right now, I have zero hours of service learning.  Since I didn't have a place to go because of certain issues. Either I couldn't contact certain agencies or because of confidentiality issues. So this week I finally got a yes and Started today 2-07-12. 

Blog 13: Answer #1

EQ

What is the best way to become a successful middl school counselor?

Answer #1

A counselor is someone who gives guidance and helps you in certain fields of life. But in order to do so a counselor should fist be able to understand the reasons to why both males and females have different mind sets to know how to approach them.

Resources

1. Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax. This book has several reasons to why male and females differ. For example females hearing is alot more sensative then males. Females vision tiggers certain colors. Explains why most girls like colorful colors rather than boys. Or how in society its well known that females are the ones who read. What happens is that in the brain these certain nerves in which appels to words rather then numbers or vise versa for males.
2. Girls Against Girls: Why Girls are so mean to eachother. This maily focuses on the females perspective. Explains how hormones, brain development, biological, society has a big part of why girls act the way they do.
3. Society vs the People. This articale explains how society has a big roll in how people see things. Teens are begining to dress as if they were around 18 when they are only 13. Boys are letting TV mold them. Most believe its fine to have one night stands and girls are okay with it.

I believe this is a great answer because you need background on how you should be able to approach  these teens. You might think its shocking how they dress but for them its something completely normal. A counselor should be able to fit in and in a way be a friend to the teen.



Third Interview Questions

My third interview will be with child phychologist who is also working at Marshall Middle School, Mrs. Monroe. Since my Science fair project is to determin whether if peer presure is the reason why teen engage in harmful activities; I believe it would be extremly helpful if I ask some question realting to my Science fair project.

1. EQ : " What is a best way to become a successful Child Psychologist for teens who are going through peer pressure?"

2. Do you believe that depending on the age you are in, you tend to approach things differently?

3. How could i enhance my skills in counseling?
4. Do you believe females mature alot faster then males?

5. Do agree on in order for a counselor to be able to give guidance or help out the patient, they should first understand the reasons to why both male and female have different mind sets?

6. Why do you believe that the majority of females tend to have a sexual encounter with the person they love?

7. Why do you believe teens tend to expiriment with drugs? (peer pressure, dealing with problems)

8. Why do you believe people age having sex at a younger age? (peer pressure, dealing with problems, love)

9. What's the best way to deal with teens that are going through peer pressure when they dont seem to see it?

10. Do you believe that the teens disitions are based of what their prents tought them or is based off of who they spend most of their time with such as friends.

11. If you were getting "too atached" to your patient, how would that effect the sessions?

12. What do you like about your job?

13. What do you hate about your job?

14. What made you see that you wanted to be a child psychologist?

15. What problems to you frequently see with a child?

Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your hypothesis?

If a teenager is subject to peer pressure, then they will most likely engage in harmful activities.

2. Identify the dependent (produced), independent (manipulated) and control variables in your hypothesis.

Dependent: Teens that asosiate themselfs with drugs, theft, or people who are having sex

Independendent: Peer Pressure

Control: End up following their steps

3. What is the connection between your science fair project and your senior project EQ?

EQ : " What is a best way to become a successful Child Psychologist for teens who are going through peer pressure?"

My EQ is to try to find out what i need to help teens that go through peer pressure. My Science Fair project will then let me see if it really does depend on who they spend most of their time with in order for them to fall into the wrong path.

4. How will you perform the experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using.
How will you perform the experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using.
I will create a survey, ask 100 random teenagers to take it, compile the answers in a neat data table, then use a chi squared (X^2) test analyze the data for significance.
I made a suvay with the following questions :

1. Male/ Female

2. How old are you?

3. Have you taken illegal drugs (marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, etc...) in the past 6 months?

• yes/no

4. If you answered YES for the above question, was it because...

• You were having a hard time dealing with personal problems
• Peer pressure
• you were "in the moment" with friends

5. have you had sex in the past 6 months?

• yes / no

6.If you answered YES for the above question, was it because...

• of love
• Peer pressure
• in the moment with a partner 

5. Which category will your project be listed under? (For a full list of categories, go to the iPoly Physics webpage, then to the Science Fair tab.)

Behavioral/Social Science

Blog 8: What I've Learned So Far

1. Since I have started working on the Senior Project, numerous outcomes have become obvious to me aside from furthering my knowledge on my topic. However, the thing I've learned is to not be afraid to go look for a source or for someone to talk to. By this, I am very shy and timid when it came to talking to people I didn't know.
2. My evidence would be how for my  independent component I had to talk to both the principle and vice principle from a different school to approve that i will be able to give out a survey to their students.

1. My Psychology class, a class I'm taking at Mt.Sac, helped me to do this because it's an extremely academic source that talks about the types of psychology, how to help the patients, and what is needed to become one.