Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For this independent component I plan to stay at the day care I am currently volunteering at and practice the techniques being used in child play therapy.
(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
This will meet my 30 hour requirement because I will do different techniques for every visit.
(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?  
This relates to my EQ by practicing and getting hands in experience as to how the techniques work and are being used.

Independent Component 1

Content:  

LITERAL

• (a) Statement saying:

-“I, Damaris Elenes Macias, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

• (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. 

- Adrian at the YMCA helped me complete my independent component hours.

• (c) Provide a digital spreadsheet (aka log of the 30 hours)  

- Next to mentor ship log at the top.

• (d) Explanation of what you completed. 

- As my independent component I volunteered at the YMCA daycare, there I helped take care of the kids by making sure they were behaving and doing the school work their parents/guardians wished for them to complete.

• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.

- My independent component shows that I watched the children, during the time there Brittany and I had the children color so we can fill a wall with just drawing and pictures for them to put up. We also played games with the children, read books to them, and helped them with their homework.

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

- In child play therapy patience and really knowing how to handle children at their worst (when they throw a tantrum) is very important. Here I learned by doing, in my research I would find ways to discipline a child when needed and I was able to do this first hand when a child began throwing a tantrum at the day care. What I did was walk up to the child and asked him to sit on a chair for a timeout. As he was walking to the chair I told him why he was receiving a time out and how long it will last so the child knows exactly what he did wrong.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute presentation

30 Minute Lesson Plan Rough Draft

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

Content:

Post 10 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project. The first question should be your essential question and the other nine must be about the foundation of your essential question or help you answer your essential question.

• What is the most effective technique to use when treating a troubled child using Child Play Therapy?
  
• What play therapy technique or techniques can be used for treating different children with different cases?
  
• How can a child's case/story, ethnic background, and religious views change or have an affect on the techniques being used to treat a child?
  
• What are the most common play therapy techniques used by therapists?
  
• How do therapists choose what technique is best fort a patient?
  
• Do therapists talk to the parents/guardians and advise them to change or try new methods to talk, approach, or discipline the child?
  
• What are some of the objectives in play therapy?
  
• How are children diagnosed/treated during a therapy session?
  
• What types of problems does play therapy address?
  
• How long are play therapy sessions and how often do the children visit a therapist?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours Check

Content:

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

- I am doing my mentorship hours at the Samaritan Counseling Center

2.   Who is your contact?

- You can contact either Ruth, Claudia, or Martha who all have access to my log sheet in the office.

3.   How many total hours have you done?

- At my mentorship I have volunteered 40 hours and 5 minutes. 

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

- The first day up until now i have been organizing all the toys, paints, books, and stuffed animals in the play room and cleaning the other family therapy rooms in the center. I also put files that reagard the patients that have been seen in the councling center in alphabetical order. I have also gone through the files taking unnecessary papers out and shredding all the files that were expired.

5.   Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.    

- Done.

Blog 10

Blog 10: Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 

• For my independent component I am currently volunteering at the YMCA daycare in Pomona. 

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.

• I have been researching tests used to diagnose children and individuals that not only help me answer my EQ for my senior project but also helps me better my science fair component by being able to use the best diagnostic test I can making my science fair component more accurate.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

• I just did an update on my independent component which is a quick log of what Brittany and I did at the YMCA on our first day there. You can view this if you click here.

Additional Post: Independent Component

Hour Log and Description (Independent Component)

Contact: Adrian or Martha (909) 623-6433

Date	Hours	What I did	Total Hours
November 28, 2012	4 hours	Today at the YMCA daycare Brittany and I came in and immediately began to work. We introduced ourselves to the 4 children who were already there and as soon as we were finished we began to play with the children and interact with them as much as we could.	4 hours
December 5, 2012	4 hours	This week at the day care Brittany and I started by hanging ornaments from the ceiling as instructed. Later on when children began to arrive we decided to take out more games for the children and before we knew it the day came to an end.	8 Hours