Andrea B.
West House
Topic: Foster Care
EQ: What is the best way to help a foster child find a permanent home?
New EQ: What is most important in the adoption process of a foster child.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Presentation Reflection

  1. I have to say that my interview helped me a lot in my presentation because my five minute presentation was about my interview Norma Perez. She really helped me out by telling me how foster care works and explaining to me that every child is different in how some have mental issues, drug abuse, physical issues, etc. The stories she told me during my interview of her experience she had with a couple of children got to me and it made me realize that I'm looking forward for learning more about foster care. In my presentation I talked a little about how she was a foster care worker and of what she thought about it they good things and the bad. Another thing I explained was the story of a young girl who has mental issues because her parents abuse and now shes living two different life's.
  2. The thing that stood up in my presentation that I said was the story of the young girl because I feel that a little girl of 5 years old had been through enough with her parents abuse and for no reason. Now, she is living two different life's she can be the sweetest girl but out of nowhere she becomes a violent girl who wants to hit people around her, hits herself and then blames it on the person who takes care of her. That little girl has been in the position of wanting to kill herself and I believe that little kids at that age shouldn't be suffering and wanting to die, thats the age where there suppose to feel love by their family and have fun playing but instead they want to die because of how much they been abuse.
  3. The most challenging part was that I couldn't decide in what to talk about because there is a lot to say about foster care, but I made it though by talking about my interview because she had interesting things that got my attention.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Final Draft

Objective: I will teach students of what I learned during my first interview.

Procedure: 

  1. Ask audience questions. ( interactions)
  2. Introduction of my Interview
  3. Talk about a story of a young girl in foster care.
  4. Check for understanding.
  5.  Talk about my goals of my project.
Resource/ Materials: For my 5 minute presentation I will be using posters (:

Monday, September 19, 2011

Objective:  Students will learn about the special ed cases in some foster care centers.

Procedure: 

  1. Ask audience questions. ( interactions)
  2. Definition of child special needs.
  3. Introduction of special ed children.
  4. Explain what went wrong with them and why they ended up with the case of special ed.
  5. Check for understanding.
Resource/ Materials: For my 5 minute presentation I will be using posters (:

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Interview

Jessica Gaeta ( My dad's friends daughter) because she study something involved with kids and helping them out. I feel that she can teach me a lot about my career.
 1. what is the best way to help a child?
2. what advice would you give me to know how to help a child?
3. what were you most interested, that made you choose that career?
4. Did you ever do service learning for your topic? If yes, where and why?
5. Now that you graduated, are you satisfied on what you study for? Do you believe its a good career? What did you enjoy most while studying your career?

Monday, September 5, 2011

Blog 1: Senior Project Topic

   My senior project is foster care because I always loved and enjoy spending time with kids. The reason I choose Foster Care and not something else involved with kids is because ever since I was little I seen kids who don't have family hurts me. Why? because knowing that I have a wonderful family and seen me happy and them sad its really hurtful such as them they would also like to enjoy a wonderful family who can teach them new things, play with them, feed them, and LOVE them. So ever since I started seeing way more children's in the street with nobody who can protect them I wanted to help them out, and why not? That is why I want to study foster care so one time I can become that person who can help them,
    What I hope to accomplish during this year with my senior project is to see if working for foster care is what I want to do when I get older. I want to see how well I can help the little kids who deserve to have a wonderful family who will always love them. Another thing to see how foster care works and how the social workers show how the kids should be treated because I need to make sure if this is my future helping little kids. I know I can help them out and make them feel special because I had been taking care of kids and always enjoyed playing with them and spending time. So I believe its a good way to experience it now that I have a chance.