ESLR Check

1. I think I've been an effective learner because I don't just sit there in class and go with out my questions answered.  If I have a question I ask it, and I know that my peers may have the same questions as well. I do my best to grasp the concept and I try learning as mush as possible and sometimes my brain doesn't recognize the material and I get frustrated but I go out of my way and try learning it. Like I usually stay and talk to Mr.Ogden if I don't get the math that day, which is a normal thing for me. I usually bug him too in class when I don’t get something, and when I ask something I know I’m not just asking for me, I ask  for Jackie and J.P too at times.  As well as for the W.B I needed help and went to him and after I got help I helped others.   
2. As for my senior project I think I have been a great effective learner! I have been going more and more to service learning (which is better by the way) and no doubt about it every time I go I learn so much! I may read a lot but its not compared to the real life thing. I always have questions for my midwife, and my brain soaks them up like a sponge each time. When I read I highlight what needs to be answered and I ask it whenever I get the chance. I also bug Mrs. Ortega! haha. 
3. Some ways I can improve in this semester on the ESLR would be to ask more questions in physics, I usually get lost and leave the class with out knowing what just happened. But lately I have been bugging my peers to explain the material to me. So I can improve my ESLR in that class.

What is an effective learner at I-Poly?
Someone who takes initiative and doesn't just sit around waiting for things to get done. I feel an effective learner is somewhat independent and communicates with the teachers enough to know what is going on, what will go on and how they are doing.  Once they know all these things, they help their peers and explain it to them so we as a graduating class can be on the same page.

Service Learning 10 Hour Progress Check

Service Learning Time log

Sep. 7: My first day of service learning was very nerve racking! I was given a tour and a run down of what would basically happen when I would go.  Very simple and easy day, a couple came in and I met them and watched a birth video after.

1-5

Sep.8: I was asked to come in this day because a different couple had an appointment.  It was difficult interacting with the couple because it’s a very private thing to enter the room during a prenatal check up.  That’s the hardest part about my service learning, but it was nice actually seeing how it would beJ I pictured myself doing it one day!

3: 00-5:00

Oct.26: I was watching a birth video and I was taking notes when a very nice couple came in. They had a post-natal check up and had a very cute baby boy! They told me how the mother had a water birth in the birth center, and how relaxed she was.  After them a couple cam in for a post-natal check up and from the other room I could hear the baby’s heart beat. I wasn’t sure if it was a boy or girl.

2:00-5:00

Nov. 10: This was the best day! I had a lot of fun, and felt very comfortable with the mommy’s and the soon to be mommy’s! I also asked a lot of questions to my midwife Joyce and watched another birth video with her!

2:00-5:00

Jan.11: This was the first time I attended service learning at night.  It was a three hour class on Hypnobabies. It was a great class! I loved it, I almost fell asleep because the class is very relaxing with soft music in the background, and they make you close your eyes and hear stories.

*Well this class opened my eyes to a different birthing technique and a different way of handling the pain.

6: 30-9:30

Jan.12: This day at service learning was very slow, but also helpful.  I had free time to read my midwifery books and ask my midwife Joyce questions. Every time I go, I learn something new and that’s always nice! There was a pre-natal check up, and I interacted with the mother for a little bit.

2:30-5:00

-The most significant thing I have learned from this experience is how hard it will be.  I thought it would be cherry pie and I was going just join every check up, but in reality it’s very difficult entering a private part of woman’s (which we are both strangers to each other) experience.  You have to build a special relationship with her, but not just her, with her family, her life and her baby. Which most OB’s fail to do.  From this experience I saw how it will actually be in life, and realized anything that is worth it requires hard work.

Total Hours: 16 hrs and a half

Interview 3 Question Approval

1. What is the most important skill for a successful midwife?
2. What is the best way a midwife can influence a woman's birth experience?
3. When a problem arises during a birth was is the most important thing to do? For a midwife and the mother?
4. How can the midwife make sure that she is building a bond with the mother?
5. How different is the atmosphere from the hospital to a birth center?
6. What is your opinion on c-section?
7. If you had the chance to include water birth in the hospital would you?
8. Working in a hospital as a CNM have you noticed different birthing methods, or different techniques?
9.  * Do you feel a competitive environment working in a hospital with the OB's?
10. *Do you feel it is more beneficial delivering in a hospital or in a birth center with a midwife?
I'm not sure about the last two??

I am aware that I'm asking the Essential questions, BUT it helps me a lot when I ask them:)