MORE DATA!

Hey Everyone,

Things are very busy in "planet history" as Mr. Bayer likes to call his classroom. We are still collecting data from his AP students. Due to the fact that the AP tests are approaching soon, we have concluded the student centered portion of our collection. Now we are finishing up the teacher centered. My next task is to organize and bring together my presentation for the SRP review board. This week I need to finish my presentation as if it were the final demonstration. Once we have our drafts complete, we will run through a practice presentation to ensure that we will be ready for the big leagues. Word on the street is that we might have some big BASIS executives come to watch our presentations in May. Aside from that, I have also been working with other teachers here at school.

As I discussed in my last post, I have been receiving data from Mrs. Stogsdill. I am really glad I have the chance to see some other demographic research on a group other than the four AP classes that Mr. Bayer has. I am also glad that it is a history class so the dynamic of the learning/teaching is similar. Another awesome opportunity I have is my chance to work with Mrs. Redmond. She teaches the seventh graders rhetoric and logic. Currently, they are learning about mock trial. So you could say that it was a perfect storm because I have done mock trial for years, and I am working on education for my SRP. So Mrs. Redmond asked if I would like to teach the classes myself! So far, I have taught four classes of seventh graders. It is such an awesome experience. I'm very thankful that I have teachers like Mrs. Redmond, Stogsdill, and Bayer to help me with all my research. Granted, mock trial is much different from history; however, I believe that I can still get a lot of good information about how kids learn. Due to the fact that I only have about a week with the logic kids, I have decided to only teach instructor centered lessons. And I have a lot of new data points. Mrs. Redmond has four classes of seventh graders(the entire grade here) and there are at least 15 kids in each class.

So now that we are starting to conclude the data collection period of my project, I have begun the process of interpreting and organizing all the data. Hopefully, I have obtained enough to conclude something about my research. I will let you all know how my practice presentations go. Till next time!