Blog 26: Senior Project Reflection

Q1) What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

A1) I take pride in all the effort and time I put into the overall senior project alone and I take pride in my 2hr presentation with making it feel like an actual Taekwondo class. 

Q2)

 

A) What assessment would you give yourself on your 2-Hour Presentation (self-assessment)?

A) AE

B) What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? 

B) AE

Q3) What worked for you in your senior project?

A3) The mentorship, the experience of teaching different students, and the position of being an instructor.

Q4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

A4) In my 2hr presentation I had some video examples of sparring and it didn't work because of the video player and so if I had a chance to represent i would make sure everything works.

Q5) Finding Value

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

A5) The senior project helped me with presenting to a different crowd of people and being able to compensate due to their skill level and their age and level of interest with martial arts. 

Blog 25: mentorship

Literal  

Mentorship Log
(Total 263 hrs)

 Fourida dewi-Chandra
(909) 476-8484

Interpretive

The most important thing I was able to gain from my experience from my mentorship and mentor was that I was able to learn how to adapt to certain techniques and strategies and being able to explain to all the students of different ages and size. Through mentorship I did so much trial and error that I know what techniques are effective are teaching kids and adults that will be competing in big championships like State competition or National competitions. 

Applied 

Just the entire experience of being at my mentorship, and being able to teach my students techniques and figuring out which is effective or ineffective helped me answer my essential question. Through having small exhibitions at the school I was able to arrive at the answers of, having strategies, executing the kicks, and just experiencing sparring with different opponents. 

Blog 24: Exit Interview Questions

Q1) What is your Essential Question? What is the best answer to your question and why?
A1) What is Key to winning a sparring competition in a National championship? My best answer would have to be my third answer, Experience, because my first answer is strategy and my second is execution and without training or experiencing anything there would be no foundation or skill or technique to fall back on.

Q2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
A2) Working with my mentor and researching through various sparring books helped me completely with any problems or possible answers that I arrived at.

Q3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
A3) The main problems I faced was deciding on answers because I had multiple possible answers that did not make the cut.

Q4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer you essential question and why?
A4) The two most important sources that I used was my mentor, Fourida Dewi-Chandra, and my text book,  Competitive Taekwondo: winning training and tactics. These were my two vital sources because with my texts books I was able to research possible answers that I arrived at and with my mentor I was able to apply the answers that I researched to see if it useful and applicable or not.

Q5) What is your product and why?
A5) My product is that I wish to continue my training and continue competing in state and nationals until I win the gold.

Blog 23: 2014 Interview

Q1) Who did you interview and what house are they in?
A1) I interviewed Briana Arreage and she is in Jr. west house.

Q2) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?
A2) Briana had plans of choosing veterinarian as her Sr. project because ever since she was a little girl she enjoyed having pets, playing with them, and loving them. So ever since she was a little girl she loved animals.

Q3) What do you plan to do for your summer 10 hour mentorship?
A3) Briana plans to try look for mentorship around Ontario because there are a lot of animal hospitals in that city.

Q4) What do you plan to expect to see in watching the 2013 2 hr presentation?
A4) She just wants to see what Sr. year will be like and what it holds in store for her when she is a senior.

Q5) What questions do you have that I can  answer about senior year or senior project?
A5)

• Q) How do the EQs work according to each topic?
• A) Each EQ is specific to each topic, for example my topic is Taekwondo and my EQ is What is key to winning a sparring competitions in a National Championship?
• Q) What can I do for my science fair relating to my senior topic?
• A) Well it just depends what you are trying to discover and explore and prove. You can do statistics or actual experimentation with animals. But it depends what you are trying to aim for.
•  Q) What are house points?
•  A) Well the house with the most points have the opportunity of paying for grad night cheaper or for free depending what happens .

Blog 22: 3- column logic chart FINAL

3 column chart final

Blog 21: Independent Component 2

Literal 

A) I, Indra Noor, affirm that i completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
B)

• Fourida Dewi-Chandra (Taekwondo Master)
• (909) 476-8484
• Ki, Yong Sup. Competitive Taekwondo Winning Training and Tactics. N.p.: Human Kinetics, n.d. Print.
• Research Check Book
• Song Ki Kim (Taekwondo Master)
• (909) 476-8484

C) spreadsheet

D) Basically what I did for my independent component 2 was personally train and teach students who was competing in the state competition in vegas.

Interpretive 

• photos
• photos
• photos        

Applied  

This second independent component help me practice more specifics towards competition. As you can see in the photos I trained the kids to have good technique in their form and sparring. I was a little mean here and there but it all was worth it because the kids were always smiling in the end. it help me answer my EQ because for the certain students that were competing in sparring in the state championship I was able to apply the coaching skills I learned and picked up through my research, mentorship, and from personal experiences. Some students were able to win with my help but others tried their best but lost. I noticed some kids trained harder than others and which was why they were able to succeed while the other ones didn't cut it. 

Can I get yo picha?

Photo mayne.

Blog 20: 3 columns logic chart

Logic Chart

Blog 19: Senior Project and ELSRs

Q1) What ESLR have you excelled in your senior project?
A1) I believe I have excelled in the effective user of technology because of the constant updates I do.
Q2) Please explain why you have excelled in this ESLR.
A2) I believe this is my strong suit because of the multiple pictures that are taken at my Taekwondo.
Q3) Provide Evidence from your senior project to support your claim.
A3) Look at previous post of mentorship photos.

Blog 18: 2-hour Meeting Answer #3

Q1) What is your essential question?
A1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?
Q2) What is your third answer to your essential question?
A2)  My third answer for my essential question is experience.
Q3) What are three details to support or justify your third answer?
A3) -Practice makes perfect
       -Effective training develops a fighter who reacts automatically, with speed, power, and accuracy.
        -Effective training reinforces a strong mentality and a desire to win.
Q4) What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?
A4) I used my research book "Competitive Taekwondo : Winning training and tactics". because it helped me with a lot of my understanding and my research.
Q5) What do you plan on doing next?
A5) I plan on continuing my research on sparring techniques and trying to apply them to myself when I personally spar.
     

You already know though.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

Q1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?

Q2) What are your most effective strategy for offensive attacks?

Q3) what are your most effective strategy for defensive?

Q4) how would you regain control the match if you are losing by points?

Q5) How do you improve your foot work skills?

Q6) what specific training methods do you do to improve speed and agility?

Q7) How do you improve in your kicking power?

Q8) how do you improve in your kicking speed?

Q9) how do you improve your speed in your kicking combinations?

Q10) what advice would you give to a competitor’s first time competing in the sparring category?

Q11) How would you get rid of the fear?

Q12) how do you strengthen the mentality?

Q13) what equipment do you use to train and for what?

Q14) How do you look for different opponents to spar with?

Q15) who do you usually spar with regularly?

Q16) How do you gain more stamina for sparring?

Q17) how are you personally training for nationals this year?

Q18) what were the first steps you took to train for sparring competitions in a big championship like nationals?

Q19) Who is your Taekwondo sparring role model?

Q20) what would you say is the #1 thing your coach has always told you?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Q1) What is your Essential Question?
A1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a national championship?

Q2) What is your second answer to your essential question?
A2) My second answer that I was able to draw a conclusion through all my research and mentorship is, Execution.

Q3) What are three details to support or justify your second answer?
A3) Just like my first answer, I broke down my second answer into two parts:

• Speed 
• Timing 

Speed and timing are one of the most basic yet vital pillars in sparring and also because Taekwondo Sparring  is renown for its fast and power kicks. With speed the Taekwondo athlete is able to deliver the punishing strike and with timing the athlete will be able to score the point or even score a K.O.

Q4) What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your Essential Question?
A4) Through my research with the "Competitive Taekwondo Strategy" book, my mentorship, and my personal experience with sparring.

Q5) What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?
A5) I plan to continue my research on my 2nd answer by looking up more training drills to improve kicking speed and reaction time.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

Q1) Write a description of what you will be doing for your independent study component.
A1) I plan on to continue my mentorship at the Taekwondo school but now focus more specifically on the sparring rather than form and kicking techniques.

Q2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet 30 hours of work requirement.
A2) I plan make sure I am there on sparring days, which is every Friday, and study close with my mentor and learn as much as I can for sparring.

Q3) How does your independent component relate to your working EQ?
A3) It relates to my EQ because this component is now directed towards Taekwondo sparring.

Blog 14: Independent component 1

Literal

a) I, Indra Noor, affrim that i completed my independent component which represent 30 hours of work.
b) My main source was my mentorship at the Taekwondo school I work at in Rancho Cucamunga.
c) Digital spread sheet.
d) I basically continued doing my mentorship.

Interpretive 
Look at earlier posts to see photos.

Applied 
This component helped me understand my foundation because I was constantly learning new techniques and skills that can be used in different scenarios and cases during certain matches. For example, the shuffle back roundhouse kick is used for a defense kick, and the stepping back kick is used for an offensive technique. With basic attack and defense techniques I can add different variations to the technique.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 Minute Presentation

30 minute Lesson Plan

Blog 12 : Third Interview Questions

Q1) What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National championship?

Q2) What was the most effective technique you always used that help you win your matches?

Q3) What was your favorite kicking combinations that you used?

Q4) What kick was the least useful in your matches?

Q5) What sparring drill or drills did you do most that helped you speed and agility?

Q6) What drills did you do to improve your power?

Q7) Where you a defensive or offensive type of fighter?

Q8) What was your motivation to improve your skills?

Q9) What did you do to develop your strategic thinking in sparring?

Q10) What were your feelings when you won or lost a match?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours Check

EQ: What is key in winning a sparring competition in a National Competition?

Q1) Where are you doing your mentorship?A1) At my mother's Taekwondo school in Rancho Cucamunga.

Q2) Who is your contact?

A2) My mother , Fourida Dewi-Chandra

Q3) How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)?   

A3) So far I have 33 hours recorded on my sheet but I plan on adding more since I do my mentorship on a set schedule. 

Q4)Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

A4) Basically what I did was teach classes which included teaching form, kicking, and sparring. I also was able to control events such as a Christmas party, Belt test, and Belt Ceremony. 

Q5) Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number.

A5) Fourida Dewi-Chandra (909)-476-8484