During my internship at San Marcos Elementary School, I have shown self-advocacy. Self-advocacy is when they speak up when they are confused about something, being accountable for their choices, prepared to create meaningful work, pushing themselves, being professional with their peers and other adults, and respecting themselves is the most important. I have shown self-advocacy at my internship by being prepared to make a flyer for the kids about summer reading programs by taking my Reading Club notebook to my internship to write down information that I would be using to put on the flyer, and make a sketch of how I am going to layout the information of the summer reading programs and where the images will go. I have behaved in a professional way with my peers and other adults that work in and out of the library when I went to go help a teacher that was teaching a computer class where the students where making a PowerPoint presentation. The last way of how I showed self-advocacy was by persevering in the face of challenges when creating the flyer/brochure for the students because I had a lot of trouble using Microsoft Publisher I didn't give up because I was trying to find ways on how I could get the flyer that I was making on Google Drive onto Publisher. The file turned out to be incompatible with publisher so I started again from scratch with the help of my mentor Mrs.White I was able to create the flyer and finish it. I think that during my internship not only did I show self-advocacy, I learned new things from my mentor and other people that work in the school.
It sounds like you have been working very hard and have been accountable for your work! How do you go about asking your mentor for assistance and has she been supportive of you?
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Francisco Diaz
6/6/2014 12:51:07 am
I ask my mentor for her assistance when I am done with something, for example my internship project. When I completed a version of my internship project, a flyer, I asked for her feedback on what to change and add. She would tell me what to change and where to put more information and I follow what she told me. She would also show me how to do somethings so that I could be able to do it as well. Throughout the internship, my mentor has been very supportive. She supported me when I was presenting to all the grades of the school of the summer reading programs. Without my mentor's support and assistance, I would have not been able to complete my internship project.
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Dr P
6/4/2014 11:31:02 am
Good question, Jake. Francisco, I'd be curious to hear your response to this too!
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Francisco Diaz 11th grade student at HTHNC who loves books, football, and more stuff.