Xuan+Lan(Wendy)

__** TOP Inquiry Question: What can we do to help the kids who think they are different with others (like they may think they are not pretty enough, overweight or suffering family problems)? **__
 * Record of Assignments**
 * Name of Student:** Xuan Lan (Wendy)

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** Pre-Adolescence **

** W : What you want to know (curiosities) **
1. How can we help the kids with self-understanding issues (including self-esteem, self-concept)?

** L : What you learned **
[Directions: First we will formulate RAR prompts for the four categories listed below (physical cognitive, emotional, and social). These prompts should relate back to your three curiosities listed above. Technologically speaking, add widget anchors here for easier reading, then delete instructions in the brackets]
 * 1) Physical
 * 2) Cognitive
 * 3) Emotional
 * 4) Social

** 3. Emotional **
My inquiry question is about self-understanding problems. In the text, it said children refine their self-concept, organizing their observations of behaviors and internal states into general dispositions. So they started to think about what they good are good at and what they are not. They also can see what their peers can do well. So if a kid have self-esteem problems, he will have a wrong self-concept and think he doesn't good at anything. From the text, I think if we want to help kids rebuild their self-esteem, in an emotional way, we should help them have a right self-concept, after they feeling good about themselves, they will be more confident than before. Further more, we can also focus on self-esteem. In the text, the general self-esteem have few parts, academic competence, social competence and physical/athletic competence. So if we want to help the rebuild their self-esteem we can find out which part they feel worst about themselves and try to improve their ability in that area. So when they know they could do what they think they are not good at, they will feel better.

** 4. Social **
In the text, it also talked about peer relations. I think peer relations is a really important part in kids' development. And one primary thing is peer acceptance. According to the book, peer acceptance refers to likability-the extent to which a child is viewed by a group of agemates, such as classmates, as a worthy social partner. So if a kid was not accepted by a peer group or any peer group, he will feel like he is a outsider in the class, or he is a totally loser so nobody want to hang out with him. So through the text we can know social relationships is really important to kids. But actually, there were not much we could help with this part. We can't force other kids or groups to accept him. Anyway, at least we can try to help them build their self-esteem in the emotional way, and when they feel good about themselves, they may be accepted by others.

** A. Site details: **

 * Name of site: Hughes Stem High School
 * Link to site: http://hughesstem.cps-k12.org
 * Contact person: Joyce Trytten



__** B. Describe your setting **__
Hughes high school is a public school in Cincinnati. I went their to observe one of the teachers Ms. Joyce Trytten's English classed. The students in this school are mostly African-American kids, and just few native American. So it's kind of opposite of what we used to know. And I think it would help with the races and self-esteem issues study.

__** C. Describe what you did at the site (free-write/journal formatting) **__

 * __1st visit:__**

This is the first time I ever been in to an American High school. Hughes is an urban school. I went there for two hours. When I first walked in there, I could feel the students there were judging and curious. I was observing an English class. They were talking about freedom. During the class, only few students were paying attention the whole class, others were distracted by different things, and there were a white boy in the class, he was the only one, so he was really quiet during the class, he doesn't seem confidence to talk in class, and try to make himself looks invisible.

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** Physical **
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** Cognitive **
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** Emotional **
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** Social **
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** Revisiting Your Curiosities **
[Answer your original questions as best as you can, given the course material and your observations. You must make at least 4 references to the text with page numbers.] [insert answer- minimum of 1 paragraph]
 * W : What you want to know (curiosities) **
 * 1. [insert question one]**

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 * 2. [insert question two]**

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 * 3. [insert question three]**

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 * 4. What new questions emerge for you as a future teacher?**

Articles
__**Article 1:**__ The first article I found was a research called "Self-esteem among youth". After reading the whole article, I felt really surprised by some results. For example, the self-esteem level of African- American was really low,and Asians were not as good as when they were in high school or middle school after they get into college. Anyway, I was glad I found out races could influence self-esteem, so I could know how I can teach a class with international or diversity class.

__**Article 2:**__



The second article I found was still a research. Comparing to the first one, they have more races to compare, and they set up more variables. They compared both Asian, American, African American, Mexican and Hispanic. In this study, they made a really specific list of comparing different races, and some of the results was really surprised to me. They were really different from what we used to think about races and self-esteem.

__**Article 3:**__

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