Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I am planning on taking a First Aid course from an EMT (Jeremy's dad) and getting certified. This will help me be better prepared for any emergency that might occur when I teach. This was suggested to me by both Mrs. Pittman and one of my interviewees. Since this most likely not amount to 30 hours, I am planning on continuing my mentorship and apply what I will learn from the first aid course.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I am hoping to be able to present a card that proves that I was certified. I also plan on taking photos, videos, and any other type of evidence I am able to present.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

When teaching any topic, especially a contact sport such as karate, the risk of minor injuries occurring is high. I think its important to be prepared for any situation I might face if I teach karate. Having a basic knowledge in first aid might help me be much more prepared.

4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your other logs and call it the independent component 2 log.
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Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) “I, Lizzeth Acuna, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) My mentor, Fabian Villalobos, aided me in successfully completing my independent component.
  (c) My mentorship log is to the right. =>
• (d) My goal with my independent component was to gain more experience and a better understanding of teaching karate. Throughout the last 3 months, I've consistently gone to my mentorship and observed my sensei's teaching style. Not only have I helped  out in running and teaching the class, but I actually had my sensei assess me in my teaching. On a particular occasion, in mid December, my sensei had me teach all four classes all on my own. He sat on the side and wrote notes on what I had to improve. All in all, I feel that I did accomplish my goal.
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Over all, my main job was to practice my teaching skills. I have a myriad of pictures of me teaching. I also took notes on my sensei's teaching style and way to describe some techniques in particular. And just to be sure, I took pictures of the tournament in which I participated. 
  
• APPLIED
  Actively teaching and constantly getting feedback not only helped me get answers for my EQ, but it also helped understand karate better. By constantly asking my sensei about the techniques he teaches and why teaches them the way he does, I was able to learn a lot more than what I would have expected. For example, instead of teaching a knifehand strike with the traditional shokotan technique, he teaches it with a traditional budokan emphasis because he found that it's more effective. I also found out that there's a lot more similarities in the technique style between different oriental martial arts. Also, since part of my component involved going to a tournament, I was able to unofficially interview a sensei that has studied many different karate styles. He described how the fighting stances tend to vary a bit between the styles, but that somehow a horse stance is basically the same for all styles.  

Evidence

             As part of my evidence I have pictures of me attending tournaments, me helping teach, and of some of my notes.

 

Independent Component 1 Approval

1. For my Independent Component 1, I plan on beginning to teach with a higher frequency. Also, I will begin working with students one on one and help them with their techniques. So basically, I will work on my teaching abilities by working with students so I learn how to better word things and how to make students understand better. Then, I will start teaching whole classes more often to test my newly learned skills.

2. To meet the 30 hour requirement, I will continue to work under my tutor. The only difference now is that now I will just focus more on teaching, rather than helping him out in the class doing demonstrations and other such things. So, to show this, I can just take pictures of me teaching and tutoring students.

3. My topic has been karate from the start, but I've decided to narrow it down to teaching karate. I think that once a person can successfully teach anything, it shows true mastery of the subject. So working with students one on one will help me learn what works best in trying to get a student to understand any given technique or stance. Actually teaching class would help me test our my new skills in teaching and it will show if my teaching style has improved.

4. My log is right there =>