Blog 23: Final Lesson Reflection

Title: Blog 23:  Senior Project Reflection
Label: Presentation
Directions: Please answer the following questions, and submit them to the blog.
Due Date: The day after your block presentation by 8:00 A.M.


(1) Positive Statement

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

 
My last and final project for Senior year is finally completed. This has to be one of the greatest accomplishments I have ever achieved in my high school life. I am extremely proud on the way I have performed during this presentation through the way I spoke: gaining full control of my voice, my compelling actions through my speech, the adrenaline feelings of confidence, and the speed I took within my talking time, slowly.  

 

 From earlier this past year, I had unsuccessful experiences with  my previous lesson plan presentations. One of the main reasons on why I had a 'failure' onto these smaller presentations was my uncontrollable actions of my voice because I always talk too fast. I am a nervous speaker when it comes to presentations, so when I presented in those events in the beginning of the year, I would speak fast. Part of me wanted to beat the time limit as well for getting off stage. But after getting me results, I could see that the intense speed of my speeches are causing unexpected low grades of my project.    

 

By the end of the year, I wanted to make this final presentation the best among the rest. I corrected all my flaws and errors that were from my previous presentations. When the deadline of my senior presentation was getting closer, I practice day and night on my speeches of what I should be informing and how to gain control of my voice as within speed as well for volume. I even did a few practice presentations on a few critics who have given me great feedbacks on what I should improve. As soon it was my turn to present, I try to remember all necessary information and keeping control of actions through the body and voice. I even keep myself thinking to "slow down" because I knew at this moment that I had an hour and a half to use, so in this case I try to take advantage of time. However, being on stage today, I have forgotten all about time. I never bother to look at the clock because I knew I had all the time at this moment to explain my project precisely to my audience. Thus, I spoke to the people as if I had all the time in the world to tell them about my entire life experience of this nine month process. At the end, I gained a full success and I received great comments from others of the positivity of my project I have presented.  

(2) Questions to Consider

a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation (self-assessment)?

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

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

AE       P          AP       CR       NC

(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

 

Research, research, and research as well as interviews, mentorship, and independent components have all worked for me to create my project informative towards to my audience. With all the information I had, it build up this confidence inside me that I knew all the research I found was legit, true, and relatable to the people. In my perspective, all my main sources have been a way for me to prove that my facts were correct and creates these information I found on how it relates to society.  

 

Another important factor has to be time which improved my self-performance for my speech. Time was more expanded for this presentation that I knew I have extra time to explain everything I found necessary to tell to my audience. I had many researches and information I found important to mention throughout my lecture, so with the extra time I had taken my time slowly to explain everything.

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

 

What didn't work in my project is the audience's engagement because my hook activity was a bit short. All I did was show a short video on what retail pharmacists have to deal with everyday in the pharmacy, but I notice that not a lot of people have gotten engage through it because it might have been I cut it short unexpectedly. With this low achievement of the audience's attention in the beginning, it created a difficult moment for me to make sure that they were actually being interested or paying attention to my lecture.

 

If I had a time machine, I would go back to the very beginning of my presentation and try to get the audience's attention by asking them a few questions that would be relatable to within my project. (Ex: Who here experience long waits in the pharmacy? Have anyone complained at a pharmacy?, etc.) After that, I would play them the video, but have it last for more than a minute or two and then ask them of what they have observed. By this change, I could make sure that I have really grabbed the audience attention in the first place without worrying to try to engage them more throughout this lecture.

(5) Finding Value

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

 

This seniors project had really opened my eyes of doing researches consistently of new, old, or recent information is open to the public every single day. But without this project, I wouldn't know the true experience in the life in the pharmacy field. Before in Junior year, I seek interest in a pharmacist career, but after doing sixty hours of mentorship had really change my expectations of the pharmacy field to be bitter sweet. Senior project have pushed me to strive more experience within the pharmacy field, but I couldn't get that experience I wanted within my mentorship because since I am a minor, I am not qualified to do any work in the pharmacy; against health policy rules. But with my daily observations in the mentorship, I seen the difficult and unexpected events to occur within the field of what all responsibilities the pharmacist (my mentors) have to deal with every single day. (leader of staff, store management, medication dispensing, consulting, counting pills, medication approval/checks)

Within these nine months, my endless researches (RC checks) have really educated the values of patient compliance occurring in the pharmacy and how it is effecting throughout the medical field as well as our society. From patient compliance, it lead on to teaching me noncompliant health problems and minor ideas to enforcing compliance to defeat noncompliant issues within patients. Most of my resources are from recently published articles on how new methods are being develop to decrease the rate of noncompliant and to create enforcing compliance more simpler for pharmacist.

Since this senior project pushed me into doing actually working experience. For my Independent Components (1 & 2) I gotten more involve into the medical field as in I got to do patient interactions and got to do actual work. I volunteered at Glendora Grand Nursing Home and was part of the Activity Center for a total of sixty hours services. In these components, I really enjoy patient interactions. I found it fun to help patients to fulfill any requests they may ask from me and it was really exciting for me to bring in the satisfactions for patients within the Activity Center such as bringing in the games they want to play, giving them the snacks or drinks they wanted, and more. Within my volunteering services, I use my knowledge of patient compliance (consulting, enforcing compliance) to develop communication with patients and their requests.

As of now, the senior project have prevented to me take on the path of a pharmacist because after observing months in Del's Pharmacy 1 (mentorship), I have a low interest of being a pharmacist or being part of that field. But I did became a somewhat expertise of patient compliance on ways to improve patients to be more compliant and aware of their medication usages. Patient compliance not only effected within the pharmacy field, but it is bound to effect anywhere in the medical field that has to do with medication usages. With my experience from the nursing home, it had really influence me to take part in the medical field as a professional who deals with more physical interaction with patient services such as nurses, doctors, etc. Unlike pharmacist who deals with patients consulting, medications, and store management, I want to be a professional within the medication field that has to deal with physical patient services like doing check ups on patients and help the patient with any health problems they may be facing and especially to be reliable in all places. More specifically, I want to be someone in the medical field who has the authority to be anywhere, at anytime, and people are relying on me with patient services.

Overall, those are my thoughts of the future after my experience with this entire project. Without this senior project being part of my life, I could have been clueless of what life is in the pharmacy. With my experience in the nursing home activity center, I could get myself a summer internship or more volunteer works in local hospitals around West Covina. After a long year of research and inputting hours, I am grateful for putting this project as one of my greatest accomplishments in my life so far because I am able to use all my experience from the mentorship and the nursing home to open myself to new opportunities in the medical field that involves more of patient interaction.