Blog 24 - Last Presentation Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project?Why?

• There are a few things I am very proud of, for one I am proud for hitting my time limit. I am also proud for being able to keep my audience engaged, and for keeping Mrs.Edwards amused. I proud of this because, without an engaged audience, the presentation can get awkward and boring and isn't fun for anyone. 

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the  component contract to defend that assessment.

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• I believe I deserve an AE because I dressed professionally, my audience was engaged and I believe my volume was loud and consistent. My hook also had the entire audience participating and my powerpoint was organized. I also had many cited sources and explain my answers very throughly and logically. Lastly, with my activities, I had a thorough debrief and when asked, no one had questions. 

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• I had all my sources, and I did well on my exit interview. I did well during my first and second lesson presentations and took criticism and suggestions and applied it to my final presentation. 

(3) What worked for you in your senior project

• I believed what worked is that, my mentor and clinic were very accessible. I also felt that I could talk to my house and advisory house pretty comfortably. I received valuable feedback from peers and teachers and implemented them into my senior project. I believe also that it worked because I was willing to research a bunch of other things, not just my 3 answers. 

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

• If I had a time machine, I would go back so I could start working on my presentation earlier so that I had more time to practice. 

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples

• Its made me realize that speech pathology is actually a very interesting career (topic), and that there are many things to learn about it. It made me have a greater appreciation for my mothers and grandmothers craft. I could also seriously consider speech pathology as a future career

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

• my essential question is, "How can a speech pathologist best help her patient meet their language development goals?" and my answers are play therapy, early intervention, and parental involvement.I believe my best answer is parental involvement because there are a lot of statistics I have as well as many other facts and information from trusted sources, it is also an answer that is logical and feels more like common sense than the other two. 

2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• The process I took to arrive at parental involvement being the best answer is looking back at all the information I have, including the interviews and realizing the importance that the therapist have put on parental involvement. In the interview and during my mentorship, just having conversations with the therapist, they believe pretty heavily in parental involvement. 

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

• Some problems that I faced were deciding what my three answers would be. I was constantly changing my third answer but while doing my independent component 2 there was a video that involved play therapy and also, my just observing at my mentorships the sessions involved play so I decided to do research and see if play therapy was an actual thing with merit and it was so I ran with it. Aside from that I cannot remember very many problems I encountered. 

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• My first significant source is my mentor, her interviews and also being able to speak with her in person. 
• My second significant source is the American Speech-Language-Hearing association website.