Blog 22: Mentorship

 Literal

·     Senior Project Hour Log updated.

·     Michelle Handley, kindergarten teacher at Kellogg Polytechnic Elementary School

Interpretive

I think the most important thing I learned from this experience is the hand-on experiences that I was able to do in a kindergarten classroom. I was able to work with young children and help them learn while having fun because I enjoy being around children. Mentorship allowed me to see what a kindergarten classroom is like on a daily bases and it also allowed me to see how the students learn best. Mentorship gave me plenty hand-on experiences that I would have never gotten if I just did research the entire time.

Applied

Volunteering in a kindergarten classroom helped me answer my essential question because Mrs. Handley used different methods of teaching in her class and I was able to see which learning style worked best for all of the students. Mentorship allowed me to see how each of the VAK learning styles work and in some cases don’t work as well. This experience mostly helped me with my first answer, which is “Teaching students through a kinesthetic learning method will allow them to do hands-on experiences and will enhance their outcomes.” Mentorship helped me come up with this answer because Mrs. Handley mostly taught her students with that type of learning style and it was very successful, the students learned but they were also entertained and very engaged in the material being taught.