Senior Project Reflection

1) Positive Statement

I'm proud that i got to go up and talked about my topic and i felt comfident which is rare i hardly go up and present for 2 hr i thought it was a mission that has been acomplished. Also another thing im proud of is that i got to learn more about my topic and what is most important in the adoption process of a foster child.

(2) Questions to Consider

a.    P/AP because I feel that I had everything I needed, I met the requirements that were ask sponge,intro,foundation,3 answers, 3 activities, best answer,product, sources. I also met the time 30 mins of talking and 60 mins of my whole presentation.yes I was a bit nervous but everybody does not every time we get to present for 2 hr, but after a while i started feeling comfident with my work i knew what i was saying working in this topic for a year i felt that i was pretty prepare. 

    

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?

P, ive turned in everything that we had to do throughout senior year,I had trouble at first but at the end everything was set up. I think i did a good job in reseraching, working with kids, interviews, at the beginning of the year i never thought i would reasearch that many articles and provide 4 interviews but i did it! There was a few problems but i ended up solving them such as service learning, finding people to interview,and working on my i-search. 

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

what i fell that worked with me in my senior project is a few interviews, reasearching articles,blogs, and share out for our answers. sharing out gives you an idea if your in the right spot with your reasearrch and with presentations.Another thing that work was working with kids there were not foster kids but each kid was different some have been faced through many things and thats when you notice because its really hard for them to focus, i was able to experience working with different kids and knowing how to help them out.

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?

what i feel that didnt really help me prepare for my 2hr was my towers it was just some answers and having articles support that answer. towers was something that i really didnt pay as much attention because to be honest i didnt know why towers was helpful for us we were just sorting articles not much memo.

(5) Finding Value

my sernior project has been helpful in my future because now im ready and help kids in foster care, i have information in how to help them, what they been through and the process it takes for adoption.

2-Hour Presentation

Essential question: what is most important in the adoption process of a foster child?
Lesson objective: the best way to help foster children
Sponge: have  picture of a foster child a small backgroumd-ask them what they think and what is the best way to help that child?
Intro: Explain why i was intrested in foster care, and the schedule for the day.
Foundation: Background info-what is foster care, how did foster care first start/
Answer1: identify the expectation of foster care
      - Activity 1- have images about foster kids with info and have qustions on how foster parents should treat them?
Answer2: hiring competent social workers
        -Activity 2- have social workers resumes, provide them interviews
Answer3: Facilitating a comfortable transition process for the chid
        - Activity 3- seperate the class and let them meet each other so they can feel comfortable
Conclusion: Best answer(2),Product( help kids in foster care)
Sources: Norma Perez- interview, Adoption Process-article, social workers today-article
Material: Resumes,images

Answer #3

• What is most important in the adoption process in a foster child?
• Answer 3: Keeping child connected to their family, culture, and religion 
• birth family members hold a puzzle piece in the child's life, some children need to confront their past with their birth family, sometimes is best to keep the child connected to their family, culture, and religion because as they get older they will ask about their parents and why they were sent to foster care they will want to know who they are and where they came from its best to let them know so the child wont later go claiming to the foster parents, why they never said nothing.- so to not cause a misunderstanding.
• sources: new foster parent role, my advice to foster parents

Room Creativity

1. How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?

               - I was thinking in decorating the room into a child's dream room,  I will ask a few children "if they had their own room how will they want it? " I will try to make it in a child's point of view. 

      2. What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?

            - one of my ideas for my first answer is having some questions and then ask a few students to answer, for my second answer is having some students experiencing the field of social worker and having other student as foster kids and have the social workers(student) trying to help the students in finding a permanent home- ex: what will they do first? How would they find permanent homes? what should they do if the child is not comfortable with their family etc...