Interview 3

During my third interview, Ms. Sanchez helped me to realize my second answer to my essential question. My essential question is "In what way can a special education advisor best help her students achieve their academic goals?" My first answer was to have a clear understanding of the students personal and academic files. My second answer  is to encourage parent involvement with each student. Through my research parent involvement was mentioned and encouraged because the parents play such an influential role in the kids lives. Ms. Sanchez also brought this up to me because she noticed that many of the students within the special education program at Montclair High School lack motivation to achieve their goals. Special education advisors are the ones that make these IEPs but there's only so much that they can do. Parents are the ones who can push their students to achieve more and continually encourage them to keep progressing in life.

Blog 15:Independent component 2 Approval

1) I plan on just doing more mentorship hours but with someone at a college level for my independent component 2.

2) I plan on interviewing the person that I do my Mentorship hours with and possible other advisors as well.

3) This component will help me with my project because I have been covering the whole spectrum of special education so working at the college level with help me understand the last level of education. 

Blog 14: independent component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Alondra Bernardino, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) The person who helped me most was Mrs. Bee from Serrano Middle School.
  (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Through my mentorship hours at Serrano Middle School I did not complete much physical evidence aside just from my notes and things that I wrote down comparing middle school and high school.  INTERPRETIVE 

• APPLIED
• This project helped me to set the foundation for my topic because I was able to see the transition from middle school to high school. It gave me more of an understanding about how things works and what kind of things that the students are  actually prepared for.